
On Fame's eternal camping ground 
Their silent tents are spread, 

And Glory guards with solemn round 
The bivouac of the Dead. 



REPORT 

OF THE 

MINNESOTA COMMISSION 

Appointed to Erect Monuments to Soldiers 
in the 

National Military Cemeteries 

-AT- 
LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS 

MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE 
ANDERSONVILLE, GEORGIA 



A' 



D. of D. 
JUL r 1917 






TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Page 

Report of Minnesota Commission to the Legislature of Minnesota. . . 5 

Exercises at Little Rock, Arkansas 11 

Invocation by Rev. S. E. Ryan 11 

Address of — 

Gen. Christopher C. Andrews 11 

Mr. Henry B. Dyke 14 

Gov. J. A. A. Burnquist 17 

Mayor Charles E. Taylor 18 

Gov. Geo. W. Hays 19 

Gen. B. W. Green 20 

Judge James Coates 22 

Captain William G. J. Akers 24 

Letter of Superintendent, J. M. Bryant 24 

Report Establishing Burial Place of Third Minnesota Soldiers 

Killed at Fitzhugh's Woods 25 

List of Minnesota Soldiers Buried at Little Rock, Arkansas 26 

Exercises at Memphis, Tennessee 31 

Prayer by Dr. C. H. Williamson 31 

Address of — 

Mr. Levi Longfellow 32 

Gen. Thomas P. Wilson 34 

Mr. Henry B. Dike 39 

Solo by Miss Elsa A. Gerber 43 

Address by Governor J. A. A. Burnquist 44 

Acceptance of Monument 44 

Letter from Archbishop Ireland 45 

Address of Judge James M. Greer 46 

Poem by Mrs. Annah Robinson Watson 47 

Address by Lieutenant Danby M. Scales 51 

List of Minnesota Soldiers Buried at Memphis, Tennessee 52 

Exercises at Andersonville, Georgia 57 

Prayer by Rev. Geo. MacDonell Acree 57 

Address of — 

Hon. C. F. Macdonald 58 

Gen. Thomas P. Wilson 63 

Mr. Henry B. Dyke 64 

Adjutant General Wood 66 

H. T. Davenport 69 

Letter Accepting Monument 72 

List of Minnesota Soldiers Buried at Andersonville, Georgia. ... 72 

Resolutions Adopted by The Omer R. Weaver Camp 74 



Report of the Minnesota Commission 

'/'(' ///(■ /.i\i^is/afiirc ojM iinicxola: 

The commissioners appointed by Chapter 2S2 of tlie Laws (U' 
Minnesota 1913 respectfully submit the following report: 

Of the Minnesota volunteers wlio lost their lives in the Civii 
War, 162 are buried in the National Cemetery at Little Rock, Ark., 
189 in the National Cemetery at Memphis, Tenn., and 9.") in tlie 
National Cemetery at Andersonville, Ga. 

Chapter 282 of the laws of Minnesota, 1913, appointed C. C. 
Andrews, formerly of the Third Minnesota Regiment; Thomas P. 
Wilson, formerly of the Fourth Minnesota Regiment: Henry B. 
Dike, formerly of the Fifth Minnesota Regiment; Levi Longfellow, 
formerly of the Sixth Minnesota Regiment, and C. F. Macdonald, 
formerly of the Ninth Minnesota Regiment, a Commission to erect 
a monument in the National Cemetery at Little Rock, Arkansas, 
and a monument in the National Cemetery at Memphis, Tennessee, 
as memorials to the Minnesota officers and soldiers buried in those 
cemeteries. Said commissioners to serve without compensation, but 
their necessary expenses payable out of any money appropriated for 
the construction of said memorials. 

Chapter 374 of the laws of Minnesota, 1915, (approved April 
24th, 1915), appropriated $10,000 for a monument in each of the 
national cemeteries at Little Rock, Arkansas; Memphis, Tennessee, 
and Andersonville, Georgia, in memory of the Minnesota officers 
and soldiers of the Civil War there buried, to be erected by the 
commission above named; and in addition thereto, $6,402.77, being 
the unexpended portion of $25,000 that was appropriated by Chapter 
297 of the laws of Minnesota, 1913. 

The Commission held its first meeting May 12, 1915, at the West 
Hotel, Minneapolis, when it organized by electing C. C. Andrews 
chairman and C. F. Macdonald secretary. 

Subsequently, as mucli publicity as practicable was given of the 
kind of monuments required and at different meetings of the com- 
mission at the State Capitol in the early part of the summer of 1915, 
designs and models submitted by various sculptors were considered. 
Also, better to inform themselves, the commission visited and 
examined some of the monuments in Lakewood and Oakland ceme- 
teries. At a meeting June 9th, 1915, it agreed upon the inscription 
which should be placed upon the pedestal of each monument. Tlie 



6 Report of the Minnesota Commission 

same day it visited the studio, in St. Paul, of Mr. John K. Daniels, 
and after looking at several models agreed in a preference for one 
representing a private soldier, with bare and bowed head, holding a 
musket reversed; and on the 24th of the same month it entered 
into a contract with Mr. Daniels to erect the three monuments and 
furnish all material of the best grade o'btainaible, at the price of 
$5,000 each, on the condition that he should furnish a full-sized 
model for the statue that would be accepted by the commission, 
not later than the first day of December, 1915. The following were 
among the stipulations in the contract: Each monument to consist 
of a statue of a young Union soldier of moderate heroic size in U. S. 
standard bronze, securely fixed on a granite pedestal; an inscription 
furnished by the commission to be cut in wedge-shaped letters on 
the front side of each pedestal. The monuments, including statues, to 
be alike in design and material. Foundations to be in compliance 
with the regulations of the U. S. War Department. The pedestal to 
consist of three pieces; bottom, eight feet by eight feet square by 
one foot and a half high; second base, six feet by six feet square, by 
one foot and a half high; and die (main part of the pedestal), four 
feet and a half by four feet and a half square by six feet in height, 
and hammered finish, twelve cut. The statues to be eight feet 
high from soles of feet to top of head. 

The contract further stipulated that the pedestals should be 
of Minnesota granite. The contractor entered into a contract with 
a Sauk Rapids, Minnesota, firm to furnish the pedestals from their 
quarry, but owing to an unusual quantity of snow, they found it 
impracticable to do so, and furnished a very handsome kind of 
Vermont granite instead. 

The model for the statues was accepted by the commission on 
the 20th of January, 1916; and the foundations, pedestals and bronze 
castings were completed the 2nd of June last. 

The inscription prepared by the Commission, and cut in distinct 
wedge-shaped letters, is as follows: 

ERECTED A. D. 1916 BY THE 

STATE OF MINNESOTA 

IN MEMORY OP HER SOLDIERS 

HERE BURIED WHO LOST THEIR LIVES 

IN THE SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES 

IN THE WAR FOR THE 

PRESERVATION OF THE UNION. 

A. D. 1861-1865. 

In the latter part of November and first part of December, 1915, 
Messrs. Dike and Longfellow, of the commission, visited each of the 
three cemeteries and selected a site for each monument. The United 



Report lU f/ii' M 'nnie:si^la ( 'oiimi issioji 7 

States owns and has exclusive jurisdiction of all the national ceme- 
teries, and they are under the control of tlie U. S. Quartermaster's 
department. Tliere is a superintendent of eacli cemetery, who has 
his residence within it and near its entrance. The National Cemetery 
at Little Rock, Arkansas, is situated about two miles from the 
state capitol, comprises twenty-three acres, and in it are buried 
6,913 United States soldiers; that at Memphis is about ten miles 
distant from the city, comprises thirty-seven acres, and in it are 
buried 14,441 United States soldiers; that at Andersonville, Georgia, 
comprises twenty-five acres, and in it are buried 13,723 United 
States soldiers. Quite a number of Confederate soldiers are also 
buried in each cemetery. The ground of each cemetery is moder- 
ately elevated and handsome, and supplied with enough beautiful 
trees to give it a park-like appearance. Each cemetery is inclosed 
with a brick wall. At the head of the graves of soldiers identified 
and known, markers of marble a foot and a half high have been 
placed by the United States, with the soldier's name and regiment 
cut thereon; but there are many who are unknown, and at whose 
graves no such markers are placed. Several of the states have 
erected monuments in the national cemetery at Andersonville, but 
Minnesota is the first state to erect a monument in the national 
cemeteries at Little Rock and Memphis. 

The monuments erected by this commission having been com- 
pleted, they were duly dedicated and delivered to the United States, 
at Little Rock, September 22nd, at Memphis, September 23rd, and at 
Andersonville September 26th. The exercises at each place were 
at 10 o'clock A. M., and all of the members of the commission were 
present. They invited the Governor of Minnesota and Adjutant 
General to accompany them to each place. The Governor was 
present and made an address at the dedication at Little Rock and 
Memphis, but was unable to go to Andersonville. At the latter place, 
the Adjutant General represented him. The Governor of Arkansas, 
by invitation, delivered an address at the dedication exercises at 
Little Rock. The Governors of Georgia and Tennessee made cordial 
replies to invitations to attend the dedications in their respective 
states, but were prevented by other engagements from being pres- 
ent. At each place a committee of citizens welcomed our party and 
treated us all in a kind and hospitable manner. 

The names of the committees of citizens, most of wliom met 
us at the railroad stations and accompanied us to tlie cemeteries 
were, at Little Rock, Captain William G. J. Akers, James Coates, 
F. J. Markling, J. G. Lease, A. C. Remmell, George McConnell, 



<S' A'cporf of //w Miu}!csoia Coi/n/i/ss/o)/ 

O. F. Ellington, W. S. Allen and C. F. Laison; at Memphis, J. J. 
Thornton, Dabney M. Scales, C. A. Price, A. E. Cameron, W. H. 
Wood, Curtis King, Thomas O'Connor, J. R. Judd and J. M. Greer; 
at Americus, Frank Lanier, H. T. Davenport, Rev. Geo. M. Acree, 
Frank P. Harrold. At Little Rock, Mrs. M. M. Hankins, daughter 
of the late Major General Thomas J. Churchill of the Confederate 
army, and Mrs. S. S. Wassell, niece of the late Confederate General 
Dandridge McRae, placed flowers at the base of the monument, and 
represented the Daughters of the Confederacy. At Memphis, Mrs. 
J. W. Vernon placed beautiful roses, from her own garden, and 
the boy scouts placed carnations around the base of the monument. 
In the exercises at Memphis, music was rendered by Miss Marjorie 
Castagnino, who is mascot for the south of the United Confederate 
Veterans, in violin solo and duet with Sterling Tracy, Miss Elsa 
Gerber, vocal solo, and Miss Birdie Chamberlain, accompanist on 
the organ. 

At each dedication, veterans on both sides in the Civil War took 
part in a patriotic spirit. The addresses delivered will be found 
printed following this report. 

We were favored during our trip with pleasant weather. The 
three or four southern cities in which we spent a few hours 
impressed us most favorably by their extent as well as by the 
many praiseworthy evidences of enterprise and public spirit on the 
part of their citizens. 

It was the general expression of the people that the monuments 
Minnesota has erected are beautiful and do her credit. We think it 
is not too much to say that they will always be an incentive to 
patriotism and a token of duty done to the memory of faithful 
upholders of the Constitution and union of our country. 

Final payment was made to Mr. Daniels, the contractor, on the 
fifth day of October. After paying him and all incidental expenses, 
including printing of this report, there will be an unexpended 
balance of a few dollars remaining in the treasury. 

Respectfully submitted: 

C. C. ANDREWS, Chairman. 
THOMAS P. WILSON. 
HENRY B. DIKE. 
Dated at St. Paul, Minn. LEVI LONGFELLOW. 
Oct., 1916. C. F. MACDONALD. 



Exercises at Little Rock, Arkansas 

In the National Cemetery, September 22, 1916, at 10 
O'clock a. m.. Dedicating the Monument Therein Erect- 
ed by the State of Minnesota in Memory of Her Vol- 
unteer Soldiers of the Civil War There Buried. :-: :-: 

General Christopher C Andrews, Chairman of the Minnesota 
Commission, presided. 

INVOCATION 

Bv Rev. S. E. Ryan, pastor of the Scott Street Metliodist Episcopal 
Church, Little Rock; formerly pastor of the Holiiian Memorial Metho- 
dist Episcopal Church, St. Paul, Mi?i>i. 

Oh, God our Heavenly Father, we thank Thee for the occasion 
that has brought us together at this time. We praise Thee for men 
who count not their lives dear unto themselves, but who gladly 
offer them at their country's call. We thank Thee for other men 
who keep green their graves and their memories. 

We pray Thee to bless this Governor and this Commission who 
have come so far to dedicate this monument to the memories of 
their fallen comrades. Protect them in their journeyings, and return 
them in safety to their homes. Bless the Commonwealth from which 
they have come. Bless this Commonwealth and its Governor here 
present. Bless our whole Nation. Grant that war's rude alarm 
may never more be heard in our midst. Keep us in peace with all 
mankind. We ask all for Jesus' sake. Amen. 

ADDRESS BY GENERAL CHRISTOPHER C. ANDREWS. 

Ladies and Gentlemen: 

In the Civil War, it was my fortune to serve continuously in 
Arkansas sixteen months, ten of which were in the City of Little 
Rock; and, returning now after an absence of fifty-two years, I am 
deeply impressed by the many evidences of growth and prosperity. 

The Third Minnesota regiment of infantry, to which I belonged, 
spent over two years continuously in Arkansas. Leaving Minnesota 
in November, 1861, numbering nine hundred and one, that regiment, 
after a varied experience, came up from Vicksburg July 26, 1863, 
numbering four hundred present for duty, and camped two miles 
below Helena on the bank of the Mississippi. It soon took part in 
General Frederick Steele's campaign to Little Rock, where it ar- 



12 Rcpoi't of tlic Mimirsofa Coiiniiissio)! 

rived September 11th; and on account of its good discipline was Ijy 
him assigned to guard duty in the city. In the spring of 1864, 
General Steele with the greater part of his force moved south from 
Little Rock to co-operate in operations on the lower Red River; 
and while he was at Camden a long train of wagons loaded with 
subsistence and forage was ajbout to start to him from Pine Bluff 
with an escort of 3,000 men. As I had just received my commission 
as a general officer, its command was assigned to me. On the road 
it was to take, an empty Federal wagon train, returning from 
Camden with brigade escort, had just been captured after a hard 
fight in the woods in the vicinity of Mark's Mills, and it seemed cer- 
tain we would be attacked in the same place. At my request, 
therefore, the Third Minnesota, which I knew could be relied on in 
a desperate situation, was taken from Little Rock to Pine Bluff to 
go in the escort in place of a newer regiment. But just as we were 
ready to start, word came that on account of disaster on the lower 
Red River, General Steele with his little army was returning to 
Little Rock, and that we need not go to Camden. I therefore re- 
quested and expected that the Third Minnesota would immediately 
be (Sent back to its guard duty in Little Rock. But the commanding 
officer at Pine Bluff, Colonel — afterwards General — Powell Clayton, 
believed that place was liable to attack, and at his very urgent 
request. General Steele, department commander, allowed him to 
keep it there all summer to help construct defensive works and de- 
fend the place; and there it remained until October, except that five 
companies went in August on their veteran furlough. Its camp at 
Pine Bluff was just north of a bayou, from which the south wind 
brought miasma day and night. Very many of the men (and mostly 
new recruits) were stricken down with malarial fever, and it was 
impossible to obtain sufficient medicine. One hundred and nineteen 
of them died. A few years after the war, their remains were 
brought here by the War Department and interred in this National 
Cemetery. It was their known valor that caused them to be sent 
to Pine Bluff, and I have always felt that they are entitled to as 
much honor as if they had fallen in battle. Here also are buried 
those who fell at Fitzhugh's Woods and others of the regiment who 
died during their service in this state. 

This monument rests upon deep and solid foundation. The 
granite pedestal nine feet high is, as you can see, of massive size. 
The bronze statue thereon, of an enlisted man about twenty-two 
years old — ^the average age of enlisted men — is of moderate heroic 
size. His face has a reverent and kind expression. Bronze is as 



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enduring as granite, and this monument will cndiu-c thousands ;;f 
years. The inscription, cut in V sliaped letters, reads: 

lOKi-",! "n-:! I A. 1 ). r.H r, \\\ 'I'll !■: 

sTATi': I )i-' .\ii.\.\i':s( vv.\ 

IN .\i i':.\i( )l:^• i u' iii:i; S( mj ii i;ks 

iii':i:i-; i'.iki i;i > wim L( ist 'riiioii; mnmos 

IN Till': si;i;\'ici-: <•!■■ 'riii-; r.\i'n:i> s'lwrios 

IN Til i: WAi; I'-i )l: Til !■: 

I'l: i-;si:i;\'ATi( i.\ (!!•■ Tin-; r.xiox. 
A. I). 1 sr, I -1 si;.-,. 

Wordswortli, in "Tlie Excursion," lias described a youthful 
soldier wlio went to the front of war; and some of the Minnesota 
boys '.lere buried were like him. Those who liave lieard of Sidney 
Lanier know that there were Confederate soldiers wlio answered to 
Wordsworth's description : 

"The mountain asli 
No eye can overlook wlien mid a grove 
Of yet unfaded trees slie lifts her head, 
Decked with autumnal berries that outshine 
Spring's richest blossoms; and ye may have marked 
By a brookside or solitary tarn 
How she her station dotli adorn, — the pool 
Glows at her feet, and all the gloomy rocks 
Are brightened round her. In his native vale 
Such and so glorious did this youtli appear, 
A siglit tliat Ivindled pleasure in all liearts 
By his ingenuous beauty, by the gleam 
Of his fair eyes, by liis capacious l)row, 
By all the graces witli whicii nature's hand 
Had lavishly arrayed him." 

More than two thousand years after the battle of Marathon, an 
English poet passed over that field, and he tells us in "Childe 
Harold" how tlie pensive pilgrim feels, 

"Wlien wandering slow by Delphi's sacred side 

Or gazing o'er the plain where Greek and Persian died." 

In distant centuries to come, the pensive traveler will look 
upon these graves. He will be more moved than we today can be, 
for wliat is tlie future to us will be history to liim, and he will know 
better than we how the cause of Union and Peace prospered for 
which these men gave their lives. 



TiiK Cii.\ii;MA.\ 

One of our ("onimissioners, born in Wales, enlisted as a drum- 
mer boy at the age of fourteen years in the Fifth Minnesota Regi- 
ment. Of late years he has occupied an important position in rail- 
road affairs. I am sure you will be pleased to see and hear him. 
Mr. Dike. 



14 Report of the ISlinncsota Coiiiuiissiofi 

ADDRESS OF MR. HENRY B. DIKE. 

Mr. Chairman, Comrades, Ladies and Gentlemen: 

We are liere today, amid surroundings and under circumstances 
where language is inadequate to give expression to the feelings and 
emotions of the soul. An occasion, where the moistened eye and 
grateful heart are more eloquent than words. 

In this hallowed ground, beneath its vernal sward, under the 
foliage of these trees and shrubs through which the shimmering 
golden sunshine bedecks with effulgent glory, their resting place, 
and over which floats: 

"Your flag and my flag 
Oh, how much it holds. 
Your heart and my heart 
Secure within its folds." 

Sleeping the sleep that knows no waking, — lies all that is 
mortal of hundreds of the young vigorous manhood of our Country, 
who in the days of our Civil strife, did their part and made the sacri- 
fice of their lives, for you, for me, and for all who now, and in the 
years to come shall be privileged to enjoy the protecting aegis of 
our flag and the rights and blessings that it symbolizes — in solving 
the problem, that at that time, divided us as a nation and as a peo- 
ple. Here the boys who wore the blue, yonder the boys who wore the 
gray, each in his valor, his heroic suffering and the sacriflcial 
offering of his life, actuated by a devotion to duty, in harmony with 
his conscience. 

"Here let them rest; 
And summer's heat and winter's cold 
Shall glow and freeze above this mold, 
A thousand years shall pass away, 
A Nation still shall mourn this clay. 
Which now is blest." 

For long years before the Civil War, we were a Nation in form 
only. The wall of sectionalism divided us over the contention as 
to whether or not the Union was a Confederacy, a compact in which 
the states are supreme or was it a Nation, the Nation Supreme and 
the States subordinate parts of the National Organism. This con- 
tention presented the fundamental question, the answer to which 
would 'be determinative of our existence and perpetuity as a Nation 
and would settle, in time, the vexations, troublesome and subordin- 
ate questions, chief among which was the one growing out of the 
"Irrepressible Conflict," that were engendering hate, and rapidly 
and surely fixing an impassable gulf between us. 



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The conditions existing, were of such a character, the animosity 
and hatred so intense, that no compromise was possible, that would 
harmonize our differences, usher in an era of mutual confidence and 
fellowship and forever close the widening breach that was separat- 
ing us. The struggle was inevitable. This Nation was to have its 
baptism in blood, that it might "Under God, have a new birth of 
freedom, and government of the people, by the people, for the 
people," might be its everlasting heritage and "Old Glory" wave 
"Over the greatest and most powerful Nation of the earth, over a 
Nation of freemen, over no master and over no slave." Comrades 
of the blue and gray, you have vivid memories of the contest that 
settled these questions, of its privations, its sufferings, its bloodshed 
and its carnage. Memories of comrades with whom you touched 
elbows, around the campfire, on wearisome march and on field of 
battle, who have responded to tlie roll call for service in the land 
beyond the stars. Some of us have memories of tlie fireside and its 
vacant chair; of heart-broken mothers and wives who waited for 
"the touch of the vanished hand" and listened at the old home for 
"the sound of the voice that is still" and the footfall of the loved 
one who never returned. Sad, yet precious memories of the long 
ago. But He, 

"Who moves in a mysterious way, 

His wonders to perform," 
who presides over and holds the destiny of Nations in His hands, 
so ordered, that from out of the broken hearts, the sacrifice of 
human lives, the suffering and travail of war, a Nation was born, 
that is in fact, "The land of the free and the home of the brave." 
A Nation, the civic parts of which are firmly and securely cemented 
together, in an indissoluable union, by the blood and sacrifice of its 
patriotic manhood, comingled with the tears and suffering of its 
broken-hearted and devoted womanhood. A Nation, in which the 
fires of hate are burned out, leaving neither ember nor ash, and the 
wall of sectional prejudice has melted away like mist before the 
morning sun. Today the North and South clasp hands over the 
heroic and noble men of the blue and gray and rejoice together, 
that the Nation is one and inseparable now and forever. The heart 
desire of the great Commoner, who "belongs to the ages," Our Mar- 
tyred Lincoln, when in sorrow and anguish of soul, "With malice 
towards none and charity for all," he said: "I want the people of 
the South to come back to the old home, to sit down at the old fire- 
side, to sleep under the old roof and to labor and rest and worship 
God under the old fiag," has been realized in its fruition. Today no 



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section of our beloved land has a monopoly of patriotism, love for 
Country or devotion to flag. Among us all there is a union of hearts 
and hands for all that makes for the welfare and prosperity of the 
Nation. There is and will, necessarily be difference of opinion re- 
garding political methods and policies. These will be settled in the 
forum of public conscience and in the halls of legislation. Never 
again will the sword, musket and cannon be requisitioned, for civil 
warfare, to make secure our National existence. We now and ever 
will stand together, shoulder to shoulder, in solid phalanx for the 
defense and maintenance in perpetuity, of the fundamental prin- 
ciples that have made us the greatest and most respected Nation of 
the world. Principles that were established by the sacrifices made 
by the valorous and heroic men, whose ashes lie beneath this sod, 
and their comrades who, with them, have listened to the strains of 
"the music 'beyond tlie sunset;" together with those, who, with 
weakening bodies, dimmed eyes and faltering footsteps are with us 
today, waiting, only waiting for taps to sound, that they may lie 
down to rest in their silent tents of green. Fellow citizens, shall 
we not honor them, not alone by the memory of their suffering and 
sacrifice, but also in patriotic devotion to our flag in ever increasing 
loyalty to the Nation that honors us with its Citizenship, and by an 
ardent love for those dearly bought principles upon which the per- 
petuity and prosperity of our Country are firmly founded, so that at 
all times, our hearts shall respond to the sentiment so beautifully 
expressed by the poet: 

"Oh land of lands, to thee we give 
Our prayers, our liopes, our service free 
For thee thy sons shall nobly live. 
And at thy need, shall die for thee." 

P"'ellow Citizens: Today the North Star State, Minnesota, is here 
represetned by his Excellency its Governor and this Commission, in 
obedience to its mandate, to dedicate this monument, which it has 
caused to be erected in memory of its loved and patriotic sons, who 
made the oblation of their lives upon their Country's altar, and 
whose bodies lie mouldering here in the bosom of mother earth, that 
the flag, which today we all love, should, without the loss of a single 
star from its field of blue, ever float over a united Country. They 
did their part and did it nobly and well. Their valorous deeds, and 
the suffering and hardships they endured are indelibly written in 
the historic records of the Nation's achievements and its glory, and 
will ever be carried, in grateful remembrance, in the hearts of their 
Countrymen. 



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"Yon faithful herald's lilazon'd stone 

With mournful pride shall tell, 

When many a vanished age hath flown, 

The story how they fell; 

Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter's blight, 

Nor time's remorseless doom, 

Shall mar one ray of Glory's light 

That gilds their deathless tombs." 
Sleep on beloved sons of Minnesota, comrades of mine, never 
again will the clash of sabre, the rattle oif musketry or the rever- 
berating thunder of cannon that shook the hills disturb your rest. 

"But in this camp of death, 

No sound your slumber breaks; 

Here, is no fevered breath. 

No wound that bleeds and aches." 
Your state will ever bear you in loving and grateful remem- 
brance your trials, your achievements and your glory will never be 
forgotten, until time shall cast her treasures into the lap of eternity. 
As I sometimes sit in the twilight shadows, memories of the 
past come to me, and listening, I can almost hear the tramp, tramp, 
tramp of the boys of the blue and the boys of the gray, "Who have 
pitched their tents with the angels," as they march shoulder to 
shoulder, in the grand review, on the parade ground of the land of 
the Leal, under the banner of the Prince of Peace, keeping step to 
the music of eternity, ever and anon, singing their song of rejoicing 
aind shouting their hallelujahs, conscious that ttiey did not die in 
vain and that because of their sufferings and sacrifice, Old Glory 
will, till time shall be no more, flutter in the breeze over a Nation 
of freemen, bound together by bonds of mutual sympathy, fellowship 
and purpose. 

GOVERNOR J. A. A. BURNQUIST. 
The Commissioners were very desirous to have printed here the 
address delivered toy the Governor of Minnesota, Hon. J. A. A. 
Burnquist, but were informed by him that the address he delivered 
at the dedication at Little Rock and the address he delivered at the 
dedication at Memphis were both extemporaneous, and that he has 
not had time to prepare a report of either of them. 



The Chairman 

I now have tbe pleasure to introduce the Mayor of the City of 
Little Rock, Mr. Charles E. Taylor. 



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ADDRESS MADE BY MAYOR CHARLES E. TAYLOR, 

Mr. Chairman, Governor Burnquist and other members of the Min- 
nesota Monument Commission, Veterans of bclh armies, Ladies 
and Gentlemen: 

This occasion reminds me of an incident recorded in the Bible 
to which in some respects it bears parallel relation. The Jewish 
boy, Joseph, taken to Egypt by force, came at last, under the remark- 
able leading of God, into high official position in that country, with 
great power in his hands. To him, you will reimember, came first 
his brethren from the Jewish country, asking food in time of famine, 
and later his old father, Jacob, who had long mourned his son as 
dead. We are told that Jacob, having reached a great age, and 
knowing of his approaching death, sent for his sons, and gave to 
every one his blessing, but exacted from Joseph a vow that his body 
would be carried to the promised land for final burial. After 40 days 
mourning Joseph besought Pharaoh for permission to carry out the 
promise made to his father, and Pharaoh not only gave consent but 
sent with Joseph and his brethren many of 'the royal servants and 
chariots and horsemen. Over the long dreary journey of many miles 
the caravan slowly traveled to the land of Canaan and there, in the 
land promised to the 'followers of the God of Israel, Joseph and his 
brethren laid to rest all that was mortal of the old patriarch. 

In his turn, Joseph, when he came to die, left instructions to 
those about him that his body must be carried back to the land of 
his fathers, ito the land wherein the true God was to be worshipped. 
This command was faithfully obeyed, and the bones of Joseph were 
removed from Egypt by the children of Israel at the time of the 
Exodus, carried on their long wanderings, and at last lovingly 
buried by them in Shechem. Reverently these faithful devotees of 
the only and true God desired their remains to be removd from a 
land of idolatry, whose people were alien in spirit and thought to 
those things which the Jews held most dear. 

The State of Minnesota, with high appreciation of the service 
of its sons, who laid down their lives for a cause which their con- 
sciences passionately approved, by formal appropriation has provided 
for the erection of this monument. To this city today our sister 
state of the North Star has sent its distinguished Governor, with 
other prominent and representative citizens, to formally dedicate 
this symbol of a state's affection. We find in this incident no desire 
for the removal to other soil of remains of these brave men -^f 
Minnesota. In Joseph's time, with true loyalty to their God, the an- 
cient leaders desired to have their remains carried out of an al'en 



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land to a country promised to the followers of God. In Minnesota 
1 am sure the people regard Arkansas just as I know the people of 
Arkansas think of Minnesota, that neither state is alien land, that 
both great commonwealths are integral parts of this Nation. The 
citizens of each state know that the God of our fathers is truly 
worshipped here just as he is reverenced in our sister state of the 
north. Therefore, you are content to leave here, in the bosom of 
Arkansas soil, the remains of those whose memory you love and to 
mark their last resting place with enduring bronze and marble. 

The members of the distinguished party wlio are with us today 
have come to a thriving, progressive state, and in Little Rock, its 
capital, they will find a modern up-to-date city, with a public con- 
science and a civic ideal of the highest type. On behalf of the 
people of this city I extend to Governor Burnquist and to the mem- 
"bers of the Minnesota Monument Commission, the heartiest wel- 
come. 



The Cii.\ii{.\i.\.\ 

Our Commission and all we represent highly appreciate the 
kind spirit of fellowship in which the Governor of Arkansas has 
consented to be present and take part in these exercises. It is a 
particular pleasure for me now to have the honor to introduce 
Governor George W. Hays. 

ADDRESS BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS. 

Mr. Chairman, Our Distinguished Visitors, Ladies and Gentlemen: 

It is with sincere pleasure that I congratulate the people of 
Minnesota for dedicating this beautiful monument to the memory of 
the men of that State for the patriotic service rendered during the 
unpleasantness between the States, and for sacrificing their lives in 
the cause for which they fought. Minnesota is to be doubly con- 
gratulated, being the first of tlie States to erect a monument to the 
memory of her soldiers in this cemetery. 

It will not be my purpose to discuss in any way the causes 
which lead up to the War between the States of this Union. We are 
removed from that great conflict more than a half century, and all 
hatred or prejudice coming as a result c^f the War should long since 
have been eliminated. We are one and the same peo'ple, honoring 
the same flag, working for one great purpose, and that for the 
advancement of the world and the elevation of mankind. 

In this beautiful cemetery, the men who v/ore tlie gray and the 
men who wore the blue are buried. Their ashes sleep in peace. 



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Regardless of which side was riglit, one was as patriotic as tlie 
otlier. In the National Cemetery in Washington City, the home of 
the great Southern chieftain, General Robert E. Lee, the Mue and 
the gray are now being buried side by side. We, as a nation, are to 
be congratulated upon the fact that while many of the civilized 
nations of the earth are engaged in war, we are enjoying peace, not 
only within our own 'borders, but with all the nations of the earth. 
State lines are only imaginary and are prescribed to enable the local 
affairs and communities to be better self governed, but, after all, 
there should be no North, no South, no Bast, no West, only America, 
and we should all be Americans. This beautiful monument is signifi- 
cant of the gospel of peace, bearing upon it the representation of 
one carrying in his hands the olive branch which signified peace and 
good will toward all mankind. It is very gratifying to know that 
when it becomes necessary to defend the honor of this country and 
its flag by resorting to arms that there are no dividing lines, but that 
the men of every section of the country cheerfully and gladly volun- 
teer their services in defense of honor and right. 

Governor Burnquist and Gentlemen of the Commission, it gives 
me very great pleasure, on behalf of the entire citizenship of the 
commonwealth which I so proudly represent, to extend to each of 
you all that the word means, a most cordial welcome. 



The Chairman 

On an occasion like this, it is especially gratifying to our 
Commission to have the presence, assistance and sympathy 
of representatives and survivors of the gallant youth of the 
South who fought for the Confederacy. One of these, now a citizen 
of Little Rock, was not quite eighteen years of age at the close of 
the war. He has since, at one period, served as major general in 
command of the military forces of his state, and we will now be glad 
to listen to a few remarks from him; General B. W. Green. 

ADDRESS OF GENERAL B. W. GREEN. 

General Andrews, His Excellency, Governor Burnquist, and Gentle- 
men of the Minnesota Commission: 

On behalf of the Confederate Veterans of Arkansas I sincerely 
thank you for the courtesy allowing us to be heard on this auspicious 
occasion. We deem it quite an honor to the State of Arkansas that 
the great State of Minnesota has sent a delegation to us and have 
honored our State in honoring your dead who lie in the soil of 
Arkansas by the erection of this magnificent monument. A great 



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work of art, of which wo as Confederates and as citizens of Arkansas 
feel proud. 

Some lifty odd years ago we met, l)ut I cannot say it was a very 
pleasant meeting, for at that time you liad tiie appearance to me of 
blue devils and were armed and equipped, and of whom 1 was ex- 
ceedingly afraid when too near for comfort. Today your personal 
appearance is anytliing else but my former conception, for you seem 
to be Christian gentlemen and I consider that tlie highest type of 
manhood. Yet, in calling upon me to respond without preparation 
as a Confederate in the midst of elotjuent and learned Federals, I 
must confess to liaving what we know in Arkansas as Buck Ague. 
Age and experience lias proven to me, as it seems it has to you 
(from tlie delightful message which you bring today), tliat it is 
human and manly to hate and to avenge. But, to forgive and to love 
is God-like. We, the Confederates of Arkansas, appreciate most 
highly the kind words of Comradeship, w'hich you gentlemen have 
used today and we can but extend our liands and clasp yours in sin- 
cere friendship and with all good wishes for your prosperity and 
happiness. 

On your return to the great State of Minnesota, please bear to 
them our greetings, as American citizens, and say to them when it 
becomes too cold in their North State, come down to Arkansas and 
thaw out. July is good thawing weather, and if you will come about 
that time we will give you a very warm reception. But, say also that 
wdiile we invite the citizens of Minnesota to visit the citizens of 
Arkansas, and to become better acquainted, please say to them thaL 
•we would prefer that they should not all come at once. It miglit 
cause a rise in groceries. 

To those in this great audience, who like myself, have laid be 
neath the sod some darling child, and whose resting place the most 
sacred spot on earth, because we love the dead more than the living. 
When the Government called for our living sons to meet those of 
Spain we readily gave our best. Again, when the Government called 
for troops to protect our southwestern border, we gave cheerfully 
our sons. But these were living sons. Just across the stone wall which 
has been broken down, lie our sons, whom we have committed to 
mother earth to await the resurrection morn and this spot of earth 
is very sacred to us. This we have deeded to the United States in 
fee simple, our very best, our most sacred, our most beloved, that 
the Government should hold it in trust until the latter days. Can 
we of the South express greater confidence and more infinite trust 
when we have given of our best to her keeping? This should forever 



22 Report of tlic Miinicsota Cotiiuiissio)i 

settle the question of North and South, of Confederate and Federal, 
for our heart goes with the gift. 

The boys of Minnesota sleep beside the boys of Arkansas and 
above them floats "Old Glory" — the flag they loved, the flag we love. 
The flag known, respected and even loved in all quarters of the 
glo'be. Loved because it represents the greatest people on earth. A 
free people, a generous people, a charitable people, who know no 
race difterence and respects the rights of mankind. We, too, enjoy 
citizenship of the greatest country on earth. Great because her 
people are great. We thank God for a Lincoln and a Lee, a 
McKinley and a Jefferson, a Grant and a Stonewall Jackson, a Henry 
Ward Beecher and a Leonidas Polk. These, with many others, stand 
out on the horizon of history as peaks along the range of our moun- 
tains on the Western Coast commanding the admiration of the 
world. Yet what could a few great spirits accomplish without the 
aid and sustaining presence of a great people, a free and educated 
people, a people who will divide with the needy, a peo-ple great be- 
cause instructed in the fundamental principles of Christianity. 

Just here I am reminded of a little story that is appropriate on 
this occasion. A Sunday School Superintendent, having a visitor 
during the hours of his school, said to the children. "Mr. Jones is 
present today and will make a short talk to the children." Mr. Jones 
arose with much dignity and kindliness of expression and said, 
"Children, what shall I say, what shall I say?" A little piping voice 
from the corner said, "Say Amen and quit." Now I see just across 
the way a number of gentlemen who have been standing for two 
hours. I think they feel like that little boy at Sunday School aad 
so I quit. Again thanking you for the courtesy extended us. 



The Cii.\iraiax 

Among the young men who, in October, 1861, accompanied 
me from St. Cloud, Minnesota, to Fort Snelling, and who 
were the nucleus of my company in the Third Regiment, was 
James Coates, then eighteen years of age. He served out his three 
years' term of enlistment faithfully, then became a resident of 
Arkansas, where he has ever been a most exemplary citizen, at one 
time serving as Judge of Probate. It is a peculiar pleasure for me 
to have him with us, and I now ask him to make a few remarks. 

RESPONSE BY JUDGE JAMES COATES. 

Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Commission: 

Gratitude is tlie most beautiful thing in the world — the exhibi- 
tion of the noblest of natures. We are deeply moved by this beau- 



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tiful exhibition oT it by the good people of Minnesota, and you 
gentlemen who are kind enough to come here on this errand of de- 
votion, and ask you to convey to your State our sincere thanks and 
appreciation of this, their noble deed; for good deeds never die and 
we hope this will move all other states to follow its example. 

It was my good fortune to have known these noble dead. Tliey 
were God fearing, holding religious services nearly every night 
when in camp, and such lovers of peace that they had been deemed 
unwarlike. They were all educated, inured to toil, engaged in 
establishing homes and developing the resources of their great 
State when they responded to the call of national unity. Free from 
the destructive effects of sectionalism; inspired by a love of liberty 
and security; always ready to extend a friendly hand to whoever 
would accept it. 

Many of their comrades have rendered conspicuous service, li 
has been well said that the world can never forget what men like 
Uiese did. Like explorers and discoverers, we cannot tell the ulti- 
iiate value of their services; for it was not for this age or country 
alone, but for all ages and for all peoples, where security and 
liberty is respected, for if they had failed in restoring the Union 
we could not have attained the security and highest position in the 
world, a light and example to all others. Wherever our flag flies 
their services are felt and revered, and it grows with time. 

There is no consolation for the great sacrifice we here see, but 
a reunited country. We all have turned our faces to the future to 
unite in spirit and in truth, with peace and good will to all who 
may come among us. Freedom of education, labor and opportunity; 
the only true basis of progress, abides with us, and the strong do 
not oppress the weak, as you see by many evidences here. 

We hope your stay in the southland will be pleasant, and its 
memories linger long with you. 



TlIlC ClIAIKMAX 

Still another worthy member of my old company wao 
adopted I^ittle Rock for his home, and whom I was glad to 
meet tliis morning, is Mr. Frank J. Markling. He was severely 
wounded in tlie battle of Fitzhugh's Woods. I hope there are many 
happy years in store for him. 

Another Third Minnesota man who adopted Arkansas for his 
home after the war was known and beloved by every one in the 
regiment as "Billy Akers." Mustered with the regiment October 
11, 1861, as a private, at the age of twenty, he gradually rose by 



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merit to the rank of captain. I ask Captain William G. J. Akers to 
say a few words. 

ADDRESS BY CAPTAIN WILLIAM G. J. AKERS. 

Comrades, Ladies and Gentlemen: 

We are assembled here today to greet and most heartily 
welcome to our State and City a delegation of distinguished citizens 
from the great State of Minnesota. They are the Honorable J. A. 
Burnquist, Governor of the State, General C. C. Andrews, Chairman, 
and the other members of the State Monument Commission; who 
visit us for the purpose of dedicating to the memory of Minnesota's 
sons, resting here beneath the sod in our fair Arkansas, this beau- 
tiful and artistic monument, the magnificent gift of a generous and 
patriotic people. 

When I address the old soldiers as comrades, all are included, 
those who wore the Blue and those who wore the Gray. More than 
half a century has elapsed since the close of the war between the 
States and all bitterness has passed away. 

Originally there were two cemeteries here; one "the Confeder- 
ate" and the other "the Federal." They are now merged into one, 
"The National Cemetery," affording under that flag a resting place 
for the soldier dead of every State, all Americans, reunited in 
death, sleeping peacefully side by side, with the animosities of the 
strife — as they should be by the living — forgotten. 



The Chairman 

After the reading of the following letter from the Super- 
intendent of this Cemetery accepting our monument these exer- 
cises will close. I wish to thank the Superintendent for his 
kindness and promptitude in furnishing our Commission informa- 
tion and assistance on the repeated instances we have called on 
him. I desire also to express our high appreciation of the friendly 
attention shown us by the authorities and citizens of Little Rock, 
and our admiration for their beautiful city. 

LETTER OF SUPERINTENDENT J. M. BRYANT. 

No. 202. National Cemetery, Little Rock, Ark. 

From: Superintendent. September 22, 1916. 

To: General C. C. Andrews, Chairman, Minnesota 

State Monument Commission, handed to him at 

time of dedication. 
Subject: Acceptance of Monument. 

1. In accordance with authority vested in Superin- 
tendent by paragraph 2, letter of Quartermaster General of 
the Army, dated February 19, 1916, (No. 293-5-C) and ad- 



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dressed to you, the Monument recently erected by the State 
of Minnesota in the National Cemetery, at Little Rock, Ark., 
is hereby accepted on behalf of the War Department. 

2. The State of Minnesota, your Commission, tlie de- 
signer and the contractor, including the sub-contractor, are 
to be congratulated on the completion of a very beautiful 
monument. It was carefully handled and erected by skilled 
workmen, who spared no effort or expense required to do a 
strictly first class job. 

3. As requested in your letter to Quartermaster Gen- 
eral of April 17, 191(!, special care was exercised to have 
statue firmly secured to pedestal and it is believed it will 
withstand the effects of any storm likely to visit tliis neigh- 
borhood, i. W. BRYANT, 

Superintendent. 



A'rpoii sho'u'i/ii^ that tlic iiirii of I lie Tliiid M iiiiicsota rci^iiiicnl of lii- 

Ja>i/ry ( '. S. :'olnii/(\TS h'//o tiU/r killed in llir haltlc of l-'ilz- 

liKi^h's Woods, near .liiiiusla. .lrl\. Apiili. /SI)/. 

arc buried in the National Cemetery at 

/.it tie Rock 

On the 21st of October, 1872, General C. C. Andrews, who com- 
manded the U. S. forces in the battle of Fitzhugh's Woods, wrote to 
the Secretary of War, requesting that a suitable person in the U. S. 
military service in Arkansas be sent to the Fitzhugh's Woods bat- 
tleground and ascertain and report the condition of the graves of 
the Union dead who were buried there. In compliance with that 
request. First Lieutenant John W. Bubb, regimental quartermaster 
of the Fourth Infantry, U. S. Army, and acting assistant quarter- 
master at the post of Little Rock, Arkansas, was detailed to visit 
said battleground; and under date of Little Rock, April 7th, 1873, 
made the following report, which was transmitted to General 
Andrews by the Secretary of War, July 1st, 1873: 

On the 17th of Feb'y, I left this Post in compliance with 
Special Orders No. 24 Ed. 11, Hdqrs. Post of Little Rock, 
Ark., and visited the battlefield known as "Fitzhugh's 
Woods," eigh.t miles north of Augusta, Ark. 

I examined the ground upon which the battle took place, 
and found grave marks to the number of seven or eight. 
From the nature of them I became convinced that the bodies 
had been removed. Lewis McKinney, a colored man, liv- 
ing in the vicinity of Augusta, informed me he was em- 
ployed by the U. S. Burial Corps in 1869, to assist in remov- 
ing the dead; he says they found twelve. Mr. G. Q. T. 
Malone, U. S. Commissioner, who resides in Augusta, Ark., 
was present when they were buried, after the battle, and 
gave information to the Corps when they removed them; 
he thinks they removed fourteen. Upon examination of the 
Little Rock National Cemetery at this Post, 1 find that nine 



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Report of the 3li>!ncsota Coiiiniissioii 



bodies were brought here from Jacksonport, Ark., five from 
Village Creek and thirty-one from Batesville, Ark., all of 
which places are on the road north of Augusta. This record 
proves conclusively that they have been removed to this 
cemetery, though they are not reported (probably by some 
error) as being brought from "Fitzhugh's Woods." 

This paper has been delayed awaiting information from 
various sources. 

(Signed) JOHN W. BUBB, 
1st Lt. and Regimental Quartermaster 4th Infantry, 
Acting Assistant Quartermaster. 



MINNESOTA SOLDIERS (UNITED STATES VOLUNTEERS) WHO ARE 
BURIED IN THE NATIONAL CEMETERY AT LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS 



THIRD MINNESOTA REGIMENT ( INFANTRY, U. S. VOLS. 



Rank 



NAME 

Captain Ephraim Pierce 

2nd Lieut. Corydon D. Bevans 

2nd Lieut. Olof Liijegren 

2nd Lieut. John V. Reeves 

Allen Alonzo Priv 

Anderson, German Priv 

Anderson, Lars Priv 

Andrus, Ira Priv 

Baker, Benjamin B Priv 

Baker, Thos. L Priv 

Battev, James L Priv 

Beledo, Peter Priv 

Bingham, .\ndrew Priv 

Bisco, William Priv 

Bong, Elias Priv 

Borrett, William Priv 

Brindzick, August Priv 

Bryant, Amassa E Priv 

Bulen, Alpheus W Priv 

Burton, Johnson S Priv 

Campbell, John J Priv 

Cassady, James Priv 

Clark, Andrew J Priv 

Chapin, Franklin Priv 

Charles, Joseph E Priv 

Chase, Caleb B. Priv 

Christianson, Michael Priv 

Clegg, Francis Priv 

Conklin, John P Priv 

Conner, John G Priv 

Connerton, John Priv 

Cornell, Cyrus F Priv 

Cowan, Elias Cor] 

Cramer, Adolph Priv 

Cranshaw, Thomas Priv 

Crumb, Samuel Priv 

Cummings, Julius Priv 

Curran, Alfred Priv 

Darwin, Matthew Priv 

Dauchv, C. H Priv 

Douglas, Robert E Priv 

Eaton, Lewis Priv 

Eldridge, Samuel A Priv 

p]ldridge, Joseph C Priv 

Erickson, Ole Priv 

Erwin, Arthur E Pri\- 

Farnsworth, Henry W Priv 

Faucett, Joseph Priv 

F"ate, Robert E Priv 

Fellows, Julius Priv 



Co. Date and Place of Death 

F July 1, 1865, DevalFs Bluff, Ark. 

, E Killed April 1, 1861, at Fitzhugh's Woods. 

. D Sept. 25, 1864, Fine Bluff, Ark. 

. C Jan. 29. 1S65, Devall's Bluff, Ark. 

C Sept. 25, 186-, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

C Sept. 14, 1864, Pine Bluff. Ark. 

B Feb. 2, 1S65, Little Rock, Ark. 

K July 19, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

H 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

C Oct. 1, 1864. Pine Bluff, Ark. 

E Sept. 3, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

I Oct. 2, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

G Died from wounds received in battle of 
Fitzhugh's Woods, April 1, 1864. 

A Sept. 11, 186.3, Devall's Bluff. Ark. 

D Nov. 9, 1864, Devall's Bluff, Ark. 

G Dec. 4, 1864. Devall's Bluff. Ark. 

I Nov. 26, 18(14. Devall's Bluff, Ark. 

C April 2S. 1864, Little Rock. Ark. 

K Oct. 16, 1864, Pine Bluff. Ark. 

C Sept. 17, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

K Oct. 2, 1S64, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

E July 31, 1864. Pine Bluff. Ark. 

I JulV 20, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

C Dec. 4, 1SG4, Devall's Bluff, Ark. 

F Oct., 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

H July 19, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

D Nov. 8, 1864, Little Rock, Ark. 

B Oct. 4, 1864. 

. . . Dec. 13, 1864, Devall's Bluff, Ark. 

H Aug. 18, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark, 

F Oct. 2, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark, 

H Julv 27, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

A Aug. 16, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

I Nov. 26. 1864. Devall's Bluff, Ark. 

G Mav 18, 1864, Little Rock, Ark. 

K Oct. 11, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

C Oct. 9, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

C Oct. 2, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

A Nov. 27. 1864, Devall's Bluff, Ark. 

B Sept. 23, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

B Aug. 27, 1864. Pine Bluff, Ark. 

H Oct. 1, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

E Aug. 7, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

E Aug. 27, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

D Nov. 22, 1864. Pine Bluff. Ark. 

H Aug. 5, 1864, Pine Bluff. Ark. 

C Killed at Fitzhugh's Woods, April 1. 1864 

B Nov. 17, 1863, Little Rock, .\rk. 

C Oct. 5, 1864, Devall's Bluff, Ark. 

Vt Aug. 8, 1864, Pine Bluff. Ark. 



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-NAMK Rank C... Datf and Place of Death 

Krainaii. Victor Priv. D Oet. 20. l.S(;4. Little Roek. Ark. 

Fulton, Robert Priv. K Oct. 19. IStit, Pine HhiH'. Ark. 

Camajie. (). 1) Priv. A Nov. 2.'). IS(il. D-vail's Hluif. Ark. 

llilher. Frederick Priv. K Nov. 2.S, lS(i4, Devalls Bluff, Ark. 

(Jrahain. .loliii R Sergt. I Sept. 2C>. 1804, Pine Blulf. .\.k. 

Green. Ivlvvard Priv. B Oct. 2(), 18(14. Little Rock. Ark. 

Ciraves, .lohn H Priv. G Nov. 20. 1864, Devall's Hliifi', Ark. 

Criftiii, Howard Priv. F Dec. G, 18(14, Fine BluH'. Ark. 

Oustafson, Charles Priv. D Dec. 9. 18(14. Devall's Blutf, Ark. 

Haas. Nicholas Priv. F Aug. 29, 1864. Pine BluH', Ark. 

Hanson, Ole Priv. B Killed at F'itzhugh's woods, Ark., .Vpril 1, 

1864. 

Harding, Clark D Priv. E Killed at Fitzhugh's Woods, Ark., April 1, 

1864. 

Harrison, William Priv. D 18{)4, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

Harvey, William Priv. C Aug. 27, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

Haskett, James L Priv. H Oct. 29. 1864, Devall's Bluff. Ark. 

Hennessey, Michael Priv. I Oct. VA. 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

Hawkins, Coleman Cook E Jan. 12. 18(14. Little Rock. Ark. 

Hill, Geo. D Priv. G Aug. 29, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

Hoist, Jacob Priv. F Oct. 20, 1864, Little Rock. Ark. 

Hoist, Joachim Priv. F Sept. 22, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

How, Asa Priv. H Nov. 24, 1864, Little Rock, Ark. 

Hultraan, Alfred Priv. D Dec. 14. 18(54, Devall's Bluff, Ark. 

Hunt. Albert G Sergt. B 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

Johnson, John A Priv. D Sept. 17, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

Johnson, Lars Priv. B Nov. 7, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

Jones. John M Priv. G Sept. 2, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

Kader, George Priv. A .\ug. .5. 1864, Pine Bluff'. .\rk. 

King, William O Priv. I Oct. 2.-j. 1864. Pine Bluff, Ark. 

Klas, John Priv. A Nov. 6. 1864. Little Rock. Ark. 

Knudson, Thomas Priv. D Jan. 11. 1864, Little Rock, Ark. 

Kroon, Peter Priv. D Oct. 30. 1864. Pine Bluff. Ark. 

Lansing, drover B Corporal K Oct. 6, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

Larson, John Priv. B Oct. 21. 1864, Little Rock, Ark. 

Larson. Ole Priv. D Nov. 22. 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

Latta, James Corporal B Jan. 6. 18(34, Little Rock, Ark. 

Lehman, John G Priv. E Oct. 29. 1864, Pine Bluff. Ark. 

Libbie, Henry H Priv. H Aug. 27, 1863, Devall's Bluff, Ark. 

Lilly. David Priv. H Jan. 19, 1865, Devall's Bluff. Ark. 

Loring, George Priv. H Aug. 10, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

Luce, George Priv. C Oct. 16, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

Luce, Walter Priv. C Oct. 13. 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

Magnus, John Priv. D Jan. 24, 1864, Little Rock, Ark. 

Mark, Christian Priv. K Mav 18. 1864, Little Rock, Ark. 

McCaslin, Joseph B Priv. A Aug. 8. 1864, Little Rock, Ark. 

McLane. Peter Priv. K Jan. 2, 1865, Devall's Bluff, Ark. 

Miner, Monroe Priv. H Oct. 12, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

Mobeck, Peter L Priv. H Oct. 17, 1864, Pine Bluff. Ark. 

Montgomery. John V Priv. A Aug. 16, 1864, Little Rock, .\rk. 

Moon. Charles W Priv. K Aug. 9, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

Mooseman, FVederick Priv. A Oct. 2. 1864. Pine Bluff'. Ark. 

Moran, Benjamin K Priv. K >Liv 19, 1865, Devall's Bluff. Ark. 

Moreland, Josiah Priv. (! Aug. 15, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

Morey, Henry M Priv. B Dec. 7, 1864, Devall's Blutf, Ark. 

Munson, John Priv. . . . Nov. 23, 1864, Little Ro.k. Ark. 

Nelson, Ole Priv. I) Oct. 6, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

Niemer, Henry Priv. F Oct. 11, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

Noggle. John O Priv. H M.ay 7, 1865, Devall's Bluff. Ark. 

Ofelt, John P Corporal D Dec. 31, 1864. Devall's Bluff. Ark. 

Olson, Christopher Priv. D Oct. 24, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

Peek, Delevan Priv. I Sept. 26, 186 t. Pine Bluff, Ark. 

Palm. Joseph Priv. A Sept. 26, 1864, Pine Blutf, Ark. 

Palmer. William Priv. (i Feb. 23. 1864, Little Rock. Ark. 

Paniy, Carleton Priv. 1 Jan. 4, 1865, Devall's Bluff, Ark. 

Parks, Alfred Priv. B Aug. 12. 1864, Pine Bluff. Ark. 

Peasly, George H Corporal H Killed April 1, 1864, at Fitzhugh's Wood^ 

.\rk. 

Perry, George Priv. G Sept. 21, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

Perry, Corydon W Priv. C Dec. 1864, Devall's Bluff, Ark., 

Peterson, John Priv. D Sept. 13, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

Peterson, Talef Priv. D Jan. 17, 186.5, Devall's Bluff, Ark. 

Phillips. James H Priv. A June 15, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

Perkins, Lucian L Priv. H Mas- 5. lS(i5. Devall's Bluff. Ark. 

Pletstoesser, August Priv. A Sept. 7, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 

Pool, Jeremiah Priv. I Oct. 11. 1864, Pine Bluff. Ark. 

Poor, Robert Priv. F Aug. 24, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark 



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NAME Rank Co 

Quam, Peter Priv. D 

Richmond, Stewart Priv. F 

Ruggles, Jasper W Priv. C 

Saunders, Ned Priv. B 

Scott, William F Priv. K 

Seamans, A. W Priv. F 

Sharrew, Thomas Priv. A 

Shea, William Priv. B 

Shearier, William Priv. B 

Shippe, Lahen E Priv. K 

Simon, William Priv. G 

Smith, Daniel B Priv. C 

Smith, Washington I Priv. I 

Steinhorst, William Priv. F 

Soule, Frederick O Priv. H 

Staley, John Priv. I 

Taylor, Reuben Priv. G 

Terry, James Y Priv. H 

Therson, Carl Priv. I 

Thompson, Gander Priv. D 

Valkenant, Fred Priv. A 

Verrill, Alonzo Priv. D 

Walker, John Priv. H 

Waterman, Henry C Priv. F 

Webster, Martin Priv. K 

Wentworth, John W Priv. F 

W'esele, John Priv. F 

Wilkins, Julius E Priv. K 

Wilcox, James O Priv. G 

Windhusen, Conrad Priv. F 



Date and Place of Death 
Nov. 13, 1864, Devall's Bluff, Ark. 
Nov. 9, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 
Feb. 1864, Little Rock, Ark. 
June 24, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 
Aug. 5, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 
Nov. 1, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 
Oct. 14, 1864, Little Rock, Ark. 
Aug. 17, 1804, Pine Bluff, Ark. 
Killed at Fitzhugh's Woods, April 1, 1804. 
April 20, 1804, Little Rock, Ark. 
March 7, 1S05, Devall's Bluff, Ark. 
Aug. 19, 1804, Pine Bluff, Ark. 
Killed April 1, 1804, Fitzhugh's Woods, 

Ark. 
Sept. 21, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 
Sept. 28, 1804, Pine Bluff, Ark. 
Aug. 28, 1804, Pine Bluff, Ark. 
Oct. 21, 1804, Pine Bluff, Ark. 
Oct. 25, 1861, Little Rock, Ark. 
Nov. 26, 1864, Devall's Bluff, Ark. 
Sept. 26, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 
Sept. 4, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 
Aug. 23, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 
Aug. 7, 1804, Pine Bluff, Ark. 
July 5, 1864, Pine Bluff Ark. 
Sept. 27, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 
Nov. 14, 1804, Devall's Bluff, Ark. 
July 5, 1804, Pine Bluff, Ark. 
Nov. 17, 1803, Little Rock, Ark. 
July 18, 1804, Pine Bluff. Ark. 
Sept. 27, 1804, Pine Bluff, Ark. 



FIFTH MINNESOTA REGIMENT, U. S. VOLS. 



NAME 



Rank 



Sampson, Christopher Priv. 

Webster, Martin Hosp..'' 



Co. Date and Place of Death 

C Sept. 26, 1864, Randolph Co., Ark. 
. . .Sept. 26, 1864, Pine Bluff, Ark. 



SEVENTH MINNESOTA REGIMENT, U. S. VOLS. 

NAME Rank Co. Date and Place of Death 

Austin, Myron F Priv. A Oct. 16, 1864, Devall's Bluff', Ark. 

Leighton, John Priv. C Oct. 21, 1864, Little Rock, Ark. 

Palm, John Priv. C Oct. 21, 1864. Little Rock, Ark. 

NINTH MINNESOTA REGIMENT, U. S. VOLS. 

NAME Rank Co. Date and Place of Death 

Borgson, Andrew P Priv. D Oct. 1, 1864, Little Rock. Ark. 

Butts, Thomas Priv. G 1864, Devall's Bluff, Ark. 

Jewell, Ira B Priv. G Sept. 22, 1804, Little Rock, Ark. 

McMasters, David Priv. F Sept. 24, 1804, Pocahontas, Ark. 

Parker, John Priv. G Little Rock, Ark. 



TENTH MINNESOTA REGIMENT, U. S. VOLS. 



NAME Rank 

Cowan, Samuel R Priv. 

Johnson, Isaac Priv. 



Co. Date and Place of Death 

B Sept. 11, 1864, Devall's Bluff, Ark. 
I Sept. 2.5, 1804, Pocahontas, Ark. 



Exercises at Memphis, Tennessee 

In the National Cemetery, September 23, 1916, at 10 
O'clock a. m., Dedicating the Monument Therein Erect- 
ed by the State of Minnesota in Memory of Her Vol- 
unteer Soldiers of the Civil War There Buried. :-: :-: 

General Christopher C. Andrews, Chairman of the Minnesota 
Commission, presided. 

PRAYER 

(>Jf'r/Y(/ />v /);-. C. II. \\'iliia))iS(Ui, rastor of I lie First Prcsbytcyiau 
C/iunii, Mfiiip/iis, J'cini.. at the dedication of the Minnesota Monu- 
ment, Saturday. September jj. /ij/6. 

Almighty God Our Heavenly Father — 

God of our Fathers, Who hast been our dwelling place in all 
generations — our hearts yield to Thee their gratitude for Thy 
changeless love and for Thy unnumbered mercies. We thank Thee 
for this occasion which brings us together today. We are here 
before Thee, in a place made sacred by the dust of sleeping heroes, 
to dedicate this monument as a memorial to these, who as soldiers 
in a great war, paid the last full measure of their devotion with 
their lives. We thank Thee that they are not forgotten, that their 
sacrifice still lives in the grateful hearts of these people whose love 
placed this memorial above their lowly resting place. 

May Thy blessing be upon Thy Servant, the Governor of a 
great Commonwealth and upon those who are with him today, the 
representatives of their State, who came from their distant homes 
to dedicate this memorial and to bear messages of love and good 
will to us, the people of the South. We thank Thee for their pres- 
ence among us, for the spirit which they bring, for great assurance 
of the deathless union of all true American hearts. Grant that 
this, their brief stay in our midst may be for them one of happiness, 
'send them home in peace and with the deep conviction of Thy 
b.essing upon them, as the reward of their service both to the dead 
and the living. 

We thank Thee that these veterans of the Civil war, vrho in 
that fratricidal strife — wore the blue and the gray — are permiti"ed 
to be here today, to share the spirit of this great hour and to re- 
joice that they have lived to see their country reunited in love and 
in patriotic fidelity. Help us, Almighty God, to be as faithful in our 



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devotion to them as we are to the memory of those who fell in 
battle. 

Bless our President, grant unto him wisdom that cometh down 
from above. Be with our country, forbid, Almighty God, that we 
should fail to accomplish as a people, our true destiny. Keep stead- 
ily before us the great ideals we were raised up of Thee to realize. 
Keep us in the straight course of duty, not only to our land, but to 
all the peoples of the earth. May this nation ever be faithful to 
those who in obedience to Thee laid deep and broad the founda- 
ions of our liberty. O Thou, Who didst enalDle our Fathers to 
kindle the watch fires of our faith, enable us, their descendants, to 
keep these sacred flames burning. 

This is our prayer, in the name of Jesus Christ, Who is our 
Redeemer. Amen. 



The Chairman 

Of the Minnesota volunteers who lost their lives in the 
Civil war, one hundred and eighty-nine are buried in the Na- 
tional Cemetery here at Memphis. The larger number of these 
were of the Sixth Minnesota regiment. One of our Commis- 
sioners, Mr. Levi Longfellow, was mustered into that regiment at 
the age of twenty-one. He is a business man of the City of Minne- 
apolis, has served as Commander of the Minnesota Department of 
the Grand Army of the Republic, two years as patriotic instructor 
in the National G. A. R., and is now and for several years has served 
as patriotic instructor of the Minnesota Department of the G. A. R. 
I take pleasure in now introducing him. 

ADDRESS BY MR. LEVI LONGFELLOW. 

Mr. Chairman and Fellow Citizens: 

Standing in this presence and looking out over these graves 
where are sleeping the men who more than fifty years ago responded 
to their country's call for volunteers to preserve this nation, our 
thoughts are filled with precious memories of heroic service and 
sacrifice. 

These men were our comrades. We marched and endured the 
hardships of war together. We were eye witnesses of their suffer- 
ings. And it requires no stretch of our imagination to recall them 
now as we saw them then, abandoning all their cherished plans for 
life and bidding farewell to home and loved ones, starting out to 
follow that Flag "not always to victory we know, but never to dis- 
honor." 



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This occasion, my friends, is inspiring, for we are here to 
dedicate and commemorate with reverential offerings of granite and 
bronze this tribute from the patriotic people of Minnesota. It ex- 
presses their grateful appreciation of the blessings they now enjoy, 
resulting from the toil and sacrifice of their fellow citizens in the 
long ago. 

These men started out firm in the faith that the troubles that 
then agitated the nation would not be for long, and that when peace 
should again fold her white wings over the country they would 
return to receive that honor and gratitude which they would have 
so nobly earned. Little did they realize that before that war would 
cease they would be numbered among those who had given "the 
last full measure of devotion" to their country, and that their fond 
anticipations would never be fulfilled. Yet, by faith we may lift 
our eyes from these graves into the sunlight of a coming day when 
every comrade in that great struggle, whether he wore the blue or 
the gray, will meet in a glad reunion in a world where war shall not 
be, neither any more sorrow, and where death itself shall no longer 
hold dominion over the sons of men. 

During the four years of the Civil war the government made 
eight calls on the country for volunteers, aggregating 2,775,000 men. 
Minnesota's quota under the eight calls was 23,745, but she fur- 
nished 25,052 men for the federal service, besides upward of 1500 
citizen state troops to aid in suppressing the Indian uprising in 
1862 in which more than one thousand of her people, including many 
women and children, were horribly massacred. 

Two thousand five hundred and eighty-seven of these Minnesota 
soldiers never came back but were killed in battle or died of wounds 
or disease or perished in Southern prisons. 

The United States census of 1860 gave the total population of 
Minnesota as 172,023, and according to that census Minnesota not 
only largely over-subscribed her quota for the war, but she fur- 
nished more men in proportion to her population than any other 
Northern state. Minnesota is numbered among the fourteen 
Northern states that lost more than ten per cent of the men fur- 
nished for that war. 

Of the men who enlisted from Minnesota twenty-one became 
generals, ranking from brevet-brigadiers to major-generals, and 
more than two hundred officers and enlisted men were promoted 
during the war from Minnesota volunteer organizations into the 
United States Army as commissioned oflRcers. 



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Minnesota, be it said to her honor, has not forgotten her soldier 
dead. She has erected monuments on many of the battlefields of 
the South and in National cemeteries in memory of her sons who 
lie buried there, sleeping their young lives away. 

Tiiat great army of citizen soldiers both from the North and 
from the South was composed of the brainiest men who ever rallied 
in defense of any cause. In all the history of the world there has 
never been found their equal. It is said that Henry Ward Beecher, 
speaking iii England in 1863 on the Civil war, was interrupted by a 
man in the audience who shouted out, "You said you could whip 
the South in six months. Why didn't you do it?" To which Mr. 
Beecher promptly replied, "Because we were fighting AMERICANS." 

We read that William Eiwart Gladstone prophesied that the 
Mississippi valley would some day produce the food supply of the 
world. He might have added that that same valley furnished its 
full quota of the men who saved this North American Republic 
from disunion in the great Civil war. 

After the close of the war tens of thousands of discharged 
Civil war veterans settled in the Northwest and became honored 
citizens of that great Inland Empire. It is safe to say that the men 
who sacrificed for the preservation of this nation did more for its 
development and progress, did more for Christian civilization and 
humanity than any preceding generation. 

Standing in this presence today among these sacred dead, let 
us renew our pledge of loyalty and allegiance to this nation, and 
in the words of the immortal Lincoln "let us here highly resolve 
that these dead shall not have died in vain." 



The Chairman 

One of our five Commissioners appointed by the legisla- 
ture to erect this and two other monuments was mustered 
into the Fourth Minnesota regiment in 1861, at the age of 
twenty, and during the Civil war attained the rank of major. Since 
the war, though engaged a part of the time in important business 
affairs, he for several years served as a general officer in the mili- 
tary service of his state. I take pleasure in now introducing him — 
General Thomas P. Wilson. 

ADDRESS BY GENERAL THOMAS P. WILSON. 

Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: 

As a member of the Minnesota State Monument Commission 
and of the Fourth Minnesota Infantry, some of whom are sleeping 
here, it has been thouglit fit that I should take some part in these 



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memorial exercises. Althougli it is a task wliose adequate dis- 
charge is beyond my powers, perhaps beyond tliose of any man, 
the sadness of it is tempered by the passage and the discipline of 
the years. Not because your heroes and mine did not deserve the 
tribute of tears that was given them along witli the tribute of 
praise, but because time, wliich sets all things right, enables us to 
see more clearly just what it was they gave, and what must be for 
us in the final message of their life and death. 

Whether they fell in l)attle or ])reathed tlieir last sighs under 
the ministration of tender hands whose mercy knew not friend 
or foe, their mission was one that we must not misunderstand 
today. The issues of any war are issues of a day or hour. Final 
as may be their relation to tlie era when they were all in all, time 
moves, the face of the earth changes, the moral as well as the 
physical, the mental, and the political world sweep onward in their 
destined cycle. Is there, then, nothing but a transitory memory 
and a fleeting service to mark the great surrender of our beloved 
dead? 

I think tliere is. And it will make us prouder than we are now 
of the comrades whose association is still so dear to us, if we can 
see clearly that they were not merely the servants of their time; 
not merely men whom a crisis of their epoch sent to the graves 
marked here today to settle a question that died with them. For 
such a loss there could be no worthy compensation. We could not 
with serene faces dedicate our monuments if we felt that beneath 
them we buried also a gift too fine, a service too far from self to 
perish with the passage of the years and the changes in institutions, 
in thoughts, in the direction of the patriot's devotion. 

In these days when sorrow and darkness wrap the world in a 
shroud, and millions are dying as these men died, we must, if we 
are even to hold our sanity, see farther than the man or the issue. 
We must look more deeply into meanings, and measure worth by 
standards more delicate. We must melt in one crucible the art of 
peace with that of war. We must have a larger and clearer vision 
into the future for whicli men consciously or unconsciously give 
tlieir lives. 

The explanation of today, and the only support for tlie intoler- 
able loss and suffering with which it overspreads the earth is also 
that which justifies and glorifies the dead who are buried here. The 
work they did is part of the work still going on; the work to which 
all men are contributing who give their lives for their faith in a 
principle and in the justice of a cause. Nations as well as men 



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need to pass through the fire of the final test before they can under- 
stand that, just as humanity is purified through love and not 
through hate, it reaches its final purpose less often over the 
heights of achievement than through the valley of suffering and 
self sacrifice. 

Only by some glimpse of this truth, so high and austere that 
strong souls confront it with fear, is life intelligible or human 
action other than the groping of feeble blind men in a dark and 
meaningless universe. The human mind tries in vain to explain it. 
Philosophy has no key to it. History bears v^^itness to it only to 
make the riddle deeper. But it is written on the tablets of the 
world since history began. It is graven upon shrinking hearts that 
have had to give to it their dearest and best. The law of human 
life moving to greater things is the law of renunciation. Its instru- 
ment is pain. Its price is suffering. Its reward we cannot name, 
because we do not understand. We only know that from the 
beginning of tlie world men and women have paid this price because 
they believed it worth while. We only know that the wise man is 
he who can "forecast the years, and find in loss a gain to match;" 
can "reach a hand through time to catch the far-off interest of tears." 

For this reason the old peoples of whom we have no record but 
legend submitted themselves to what they called Fate, working 
out an inescapable destiny through individuals doomed to pay for 
the future of others with all they had of happiness, of hope, of life 
itself. For this reason the comrades who are buried here fought 
and sleep well. For this millions upon millions, in the hidden places 
as well as in the glare of breaking bombs and amid the unceasing 
thunder of the guns, are offering to the impenetrable will that 
guides them and us and all their personal tribute of sacrifice. 

It is, then, something greater than bravery, something higher 
than patriotism, something more eternal than devotion to any one 
cause that broods upon these graves over which we bend today with 
hearts full of love and honor. "Their swords are rust, their bones 
are dust, their souls are with their God we trust." The first and 
the second we know. Of these the monument is witness. But only 
if we can reach an understanding that unites our time with all the 
life of the world, their purpose with the purpose which must govern 
the acts and movements of the universe, human will with a universal 
will, can we rightly value their gift. 

In that spirit our trophies shine with a new luster, our 
memorials are lasting, our sorrow is a triumph, our brothers who 
lie here are but a part of the unending army that has forever moved 




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through sacrifice and suffering to save a world by the only force 
strong enough to rid it one day of wrong and evil. With a new 
pride and courage we may celebrate days and places and events 
and men like those in whose honor we are united today, be- 
cause througli what tliey gave lies the way for all men and women 
out of pain into peace. 



ADDRESS OF MR. HENRY B. DIKE. 

Mr. Chairman, Comrades, Ladies and Gentlemen: 

As we are assembled here, today, in this City of the Dead, 
where repose the mouldering forms of thousands of the flower of 
the youth of the North, who in the long dark days of the Civil 
War responded to the call for sacrifice and offered "all that they 
were and all that they hoped to be" to preserve the integrity of the 
Nation and the honor of its flag, a wealth of memories crowd upon 
us and we are reminded that: 

"There are billows far out on the Ocean 
Which never will break on the beach. 
There are waves of human emotion 
Which can flnd no expression in speech." 

Memories of their bravery, heroism and valorous deeds, amid 
the clashing of sword, the rattle of musketry, while shot and shell 
roared and crashed around them. Memories of the pain and 
suffering they endured, of the cruel gaping wounds that bled and 
ached and the gasping breath, that came quick and short as they 
yielded, upon the altar of their Country, all that they had to give, 
and closed their eyes upon things of earth to open upon the hills 
of the Eternal morning. Memories of the home ties broken, of 
mothers, wives and sisters who, with bleeding hearts, suffered 
unspeakable anguish of soul, over the loss of the loved one who 
had made the sacrifice of his life, that not a star in the galaxy 
of stars in the azure field of "Old Glory" should ever be removed. 
The heroism and valor, the suffering and sacrifice, of these boys 
who wore the blue, the anguish of soul, of their mothers, wives and 
loved ones has never been surpassed and only equalled by the brave 
and heroic boys who wore the gray, and the noble women of the 
South who, with bowed head and tear furrowed cheeks, gave the 
dearest jewels of their hearts for the cause they firmly and honestly 
believed to be right. 

"If singing breath or echoing chord 
To every hidden pang were given. 
What endless melodies were poured. 
As sad as earth, as sweet as heaven." 

They bequeathed to us a priceless heritage, purchased by the 
shedding of their blood, the sacrifice of their lives, and the tears, 
sorrow and anguish of the noble women of our Country, who sat in 



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the shadow, waiting, and listening for the familiar voice of the one, 
dearer to them than life itself, who had responded to his name, at 
the call of the roll in the deathless land beyond. This heritage: a 
united people with one Country, where hatred, animosity and 
distrust of section against section has given place to mutual fellow- 
ship, sympathy and purpose in every effort making for its greatness, 
its stability and its destiny. A Nation following the one flag that 
shall ever lead it along the path of freedom and righteousness as a 
pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. 

"The one flag! The great flag, 

The flag for me and you. 

Glorified, all else beside, 

The red and white and blue. 

Thousands have died for it, millions defend It, 

Emblem of justice and mercy to all." 

I am persuaded that the Infinite Ruler has plans and puropses 
regarding the development, progress and destiny of nations, that 
no human agency can thwart or set aside. That oft times what 
appears as a defeat of our hopes and cherished ambitions, our con- 
flicts in the forum of public opinion, and on the field of battle, are 
in its results and final analysis, among our greatest victories. 
Believing this, as I look back over the half century and more since 
Appomatox and note the passing into oblivion of those contro- 
versies and contentions that separated us and engendered hate and 
animosity, the development, progress and prosperity of every section 
of our ibeloved land, realizing that we are now a united people, 
under one fiag, working together, with heart and hand for those 
things, that assure our glorious destiny, and have made us the 
greatest and most respected Nation on the face of the earth, I know 
that God was in the result of that conflict, and that it was in har- 
mony with His divine purpose. At the time, measured with reference 
to immediate results, it was a victory for the North, but, as the years 
have gone by, passion and heat have disappeared, fraternity and 
fellowship have grown apace, from coast to coast, from the lakes to 
the gulf, the dominant sentiment of all our people is, loyalty to 
Country and devotion to its flag. As we contemplate the present, 
consider the past and anticipate the future of our Country, cannot 
we truthfully say that the result of the Civil War was a triumph for 
the Nation, North and South alike, and that the defeat of the South, 
in that contest, in its results under the directing hand of Providence 
has proven to have been its greatest victory. 

No section of our Country has ever had a monopoly of heroism; 
so, today none can boast of superior loyalty to the Nation or of 



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pre-eminent devotion to its flag. The defeated South of '65 in its 
patriotism, loyalty, love for Country, and fidelity to the principles 
that insure the Nation's perpetuity and glorious destiny, today, is 
standing in the front rank, elbow toucliing elbow, witli the loyal and 
patriotic North, in defense of our blood-bought lieritage. 

At the close of the Civil war and for long years after, because 
of the bitter animosity and hate engendered, it hardly seemed 
possible that any, who participated in that conflict would live to 
listen to utterances of representative and honored citizens of the 
Southland, that could only pass the portals of speech, of those loyal 
to the Union, devoted to its flag, its wellfare, progress and pros- 
perity; but today, in the Chambers of Congress, the halls of legisla- 
tion, in cities, towns and hamlets, men and women of the "Sunny 
South" are vocalizing their sincere loyalty, love and devotion to 
the Nation and its flag. I quote some of these utterances, made 
within the last two or three months, as indicative of the prevailing 
sentiment among our Southern brethren, hoping that they may 
impel us to a greater activity in behalf of a loyal support and 
defense of our Country and its cherished institutions. The Historian 
General of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in a recent 
address said: 

"Do you ask: Would it have been better had the South 
been victorious? I must say no. God knew best." 
Congressman Eagle, of Texas, last month discussing a bill then 
pending in Congress, expressed himself as follows: 

"I rejoice with men in this Chamber, from every sec- 
tion of this glorious Union, that, now there is peace, 
not only in fact, but mutual sympathy and fellowship 
as well, and that in the future there will be no 
patriotism limited alone to North or South or East or 
West, and that everywhere we feel the same common 
devotion to the same flag, and the saane aspiration for the 
glory of a Common Country." 

Congressman Clark, of Florida, in his speech in the last Con- 
gress, on the acceptance by the Nation of the Lincoln homestead, 
said: 

"This action bespeaks empliatically and more strongly 
than any language could the fact that we are absolutely a 
united family, under one flag, with one Country and all of us 
loving to do honor to the memory of Abraham Lincoln." 
Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, in the Senate Chamber at 
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his heart, and I ^believe the sentiment of our Southern Citizenship, 
in the following words: 

"If during the last twenty years I have done aught in 
this Chamber or elsewhere to keep alive the smouldering 
fires of sectionalism, let me say today, that they have long 
since died out of my heart and in the land from which I 
'came. * * * * jj ever I did hate the Northern people, 
that hatred has died out of my heart, and the pitchfork, if it 
was considered an emblem of it, has long since been 'buried. 
From its grave an olive tree has grown, and I am tendering 
the olive branch, claiming to represent the South in doing 
so, to all Northern people * * * * j have come to 
believe that the great war which that first shot at Sumter 
ushered in * * * * ended in the way that was best for all." 
Another citizen of our Southland in a recent speech said: 
"The enemies of our Country from this day on must 
reckon with the blood and brawn of that race who fought 
with Grant at Vicksburg, together, side by side, shoulder to 
shoulder, with those who died with Lee at Gettysburg, 
Antietam and the Wilderness." 

In the Spanish-American War, at the call to tlie colors, the 
young, noble manhood of the North and the South willingly re- 
sponded, and in Cuba, the Philippines and on the bosom of the 
seas, fought together, side by side, for the honor of their Country 
and the glory of its flag, and displayed the same courage and 
heroism as did their fathers with Grant and Lee in the battles 
of the Civil War. Truly we are a united people; united in labor, 
purpose, and sacrifie, if needs be, for the ever upward and onward 
march, to the glorious consumation of our cherished hopes and 
desires, that our beloved land may ever shine as the sun, ever 
sending forth its life-giving rays of freedom, liberty and righteous- 
ness, to all the peoples of the earth. 

The condition of harmony, fellowship, united effort and pros- 
perity which our Country enjoys today and which presages its 
happy and glorious future, was made possible by the suffering and 
oblation of these heroes, whose memory we honor today, and their 
comrades who, in the dark days agone, never to return, suffered 
with them and were willing to die, that our flag might forever float 
over a united nation of freemen, its shield and protection, against 
the antagonism of any and every foe. Surely they did not suffer, 
nor die in vain, and are worthy of the Nation's gratitude and its 
love. 



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Minnesota: ever true to the cause of a united country, freedom 
and liberty, you commissioned us to erect and we are here today 
to dedicate, on your behalf, this beautiful monument of imperishable 
granite and enduring bronze, as a lasting tribute to the memory of 
your beloved, heroic and valiant sons, "made immortal by their 
heroism on the fields of strife," whose bodies lie here beneath the 
grass, and who endured the hardships and sufferings of war, yielded 
their lives upon the Nation's altar, in defense of its flag, and left for 
all time the priceless legacy of a united people, a land of freedom, 
and a national prestige, possessed by no other country on the 
face of the earth. Minnesota: in thus doing you have not only dis- 
charged a sacred duty, due to the memory of these, your sons, but 
you have added additional honor and luster to your name. Beautiful 
and enduring as is this memorial of their achievement, suffering 
and sacrifice, the more beautiful and enduring monument to their 
memory is the one that shall ever be carried in the hearts of the 
people of the Home State 'till the dawning of "The morning that 
withers the stars from the sky." Comrades of mine: those of us 
who touched elbows with you amid the smoke and din of battle, on 
weary march, and with you endured the hardships and pestilence 
of war, as we are sitting beside the silent sea, waiting the sound 
of the muffled oar that heralds the approach of the boat that shall 
carry us to the Eternal shore; in our vision of faith and hope, we 
hear your anthem of joy, as the Great Shepherd leads you by 
pastures green and waters still, amid the pearl-capped hills in the 
land beyond the stars, where war, sorrow, pain and tears are never 
known and where the rainbow never fades. 

"Take them, O Father, in immortal trust. 
Ashes to ashes, dust to kindred dust. 
Till the last Angel rolls the stone away. 
And a new morning brings Eternal day." 

The Chaikm.vx 

We will now have the pleasure to listen to a solo by Miss 
Gerber, of Memphis. 

Solo by Miss Elsa A. Gerber 
DANNY BOY 
(By Fred E. Weatherly) 
Oh, Danny Boy, the mournful pipes are calling 

From glen to glen, and down the mountain side. 
The summer's gone and all the roses falling. 

It's you, it's you must go and I must bide. 
But come ye back when summer's in the meadow. 

Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow, 
It's I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow. 

Oh, Danny Boy, Oh, Danny Boy, I love you so! 



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But when ye come, and all the flowers are dying, 

If I am dead, as dead I well may be, 
Ye'll come and find the place where I am lying, 

And kneel and say an Ave there for me; 
And I shall hear, though soft your tread above me. 

And all my grave will warmer, sweeter be, 
For you will bend and tell me that you love me. 

And 1 shall sleep in peace until you come to me. 



ADDRESS BY GOVERNOR J. A. A. BURNQUIST. 

An address was then delivered by the Governor of Minnesota, 
Hon. J. A. A. Burnquist. 



The Chairman 

I began correspondence with Mr. J. M. Ferguson, Superintend- 
ent of this National Cemetery, about four years ago, and wish to 
acknowledge his uniform kindness and promptitude in furnishing 
me information. It is with regret that I have just learned of his 
recent decease; and I beg to express our sympathy for his widow 
and son in their bereavement. The following is the Superintend- 
ent's letter accepting the monument: 

ACCEPTANCE OF MONUMENT. 

National Cemetery, Memphis, Tenn. 
August 23, 1916. 
General C. C. Andrews, Chairman of the Minnesota Monu- 
ment Commission. 
My Dear Sir: — 

As the representative of the United States Government 
and being the custodian and keeper of the beautiful Na- 
tional Cemetery at Memphis Tenn., in which there are now 
14,447 defenders of the Flag of the nation buried, I can but 
feebly express my pleasure on behalf of the Quartermaster's 
Department of the United States in this formal acceptance 
at your hands of the handsome Monument which has just 
been erected in this cemetery by the good people of the 
great State of Minnesota, in honor of her sons who fell in 
defense of the life of the nation. 

Your State, Minnesota, is the first of all of the states 
of the Union to erect such a monument in this cemetery to 
her fallen soldiers. We will carefully guard this monument 
with the sleeping soldier boys around it. 



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This Monument we regard as a permanent and lasting 
expression of the love and patriotism of your people at 
home, which has been unclouded and undimmed for more 
than fifty years, and now finds expression in this beautiful 
monument. 

We hope other states may follow your worthy example 
in this matter. 

And now wishing for your good people all joy and pros- 
perity, 1 have the honor to be. Yours Sincerely, 

JOEL M. FERGUSON, 
Superintendent National Cemetery, 

Memphis, Tenn. 

LETTER FROM ARCHBISHOP IRELAND. 

St. Paul, September 9, 1916. 
My Dear Sir: 

I am much honored by your invitation that I accompany 
the members of the Minnesota State Monument Association 
on their journey Southward. There would be much pleasure 
for me in being with them on their patriotic mission were 
it at all possible for me to be absent at that time from home 
duties. Just then work will be on foot in St. Paul — a 
financial campaign for the benefit of the Good Shepherds — 
and I must be here to encourage and direct it. There is no 
way by which I could avoid this duty. 

A visit to Memphis would be especially agreeable to 
nie as during the War I spent much of my time in Memphis. 
I have often thought of visiting Memphis, and, perhaps, 
sometime in the future the pleasure of doing so may be 
mine. Just now, however, I am compelled to stay at home. 

Thanking you and the other members of the Commis- 
sion for their kindness in my regard, and wishing them a 
safe and pleasant journey, 1 am. 

Very sincerely, 

JOHN IRELAND. 



The Chaiumax 

The former Confederates are no strangers to me. Through 
your General Forrest I was a prisoner of war three months 
in the summer and fall of 1862 at Madison, Georgia. With 
the exception of a few citizens we were all commissioned officers 
and were treated in a humane manner. I was allowed the first day 



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to send out and buy a copy of Shakespeare, which I studied, and 
I look back with pleasure to my experience. We have with us 
today a well-known citizen of Memphis, who was a young Confeder- 
ate soldier, and I now ask him to favor us with a few remarks. 
Judge J. M. Greer. 

ADDRESS OF JUDGE JAMES M. GREER. 
Mr. Chairman, My One-time Enemies, My Present Friends, Men 

and Women of America: 

At the request of the members of Post Number 3 of the Grand 
Army of the Republic, I, who served the last year of the Civil War, 
as a Confederate soldier, have been chosen by Memphis to speak for 
her on this solemn occasion in the National Cemetery, on the edge 
of her corporate limits. 

It is meet and proper, that on the soil, which once belonged to 
the "Volunteer State," but which now is the property of the Nation, 
that this Monument to the volunteer soldiery of the State of "Clear 
Waters" should be placed! With Minnesota's accustomed prompti- 
tude in patriotism, it is the first — let me hope of many others — put 
here in this place. I do not know the name of the artist who 
moulded yonder statue, but he has shown genius in that bronze 
private, who stands with bared head and reversed rifle, as a guard 
over his sleeping comrades. 

Much has been said here today — mainly by men who fought for 
the Union — about the absence of any hostility now. Let me tell 
you, there was no animosity even when we were "Johnny Rebs" or 
"Yanks." Then, as now, there was Americanism and mutual ad- 
miration for those who offered their lives to uphold it. We did not 
hate — we respected! Whatever bitterness came out of that struggle, 
came after the Great Lincoln and Grant had lost their power and the 
small politicians succeeding them gave to this section of our common 
country the horrors of Reconstruction — when white men of your 
section sought to make of black men in our section a ruling class 
for which they were most unworthy. That Anglo-Saxon blood in 
our veins — in the veins of the desecendants of the Cavaliers of 
Virginia, the Hugenots of South Carolina and the white race of all 
time, forbade this degradation, and so, America here with us, as 
with you, still lives. No matter how far apart we may have been 
more than fifty years ago, we are shoulder to shoulder today in a 
common patriotism and profound reverence for the heroism of that 
other day. 



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The speakers preceding me have spoken eloquently of those 
who sleep here who came from Minnesota. They deserve it. They 
gave their lives in honest conviction. Let me say of tliem that, 
"greater love hath no man, tlian this, that he lay down his life," 
for duty. 

"Tlie muffled drum has beat the soldiers' last tattoo. 

No more on Life's Parade shall meet the brave but fallen few. 

On Fame's eternal camping ground. 

Their silent tents are spread. 

And Glory guards with solemn round 

The Bivouac of the dead." 

And so for my own section of what is now our joint country, 
we, in pushing back invasion, died for duty. Let me — without 
boastfulness — call to your attention that Tennessee gave one-sixth 
of the volunteer soldiery of the Confederacy and to the Union more 
than 30,000 men. Divided in her conviction she was united in her 
heroism. It is a truth also that the Civil War was not, on the one 
hand, a war to abolish, or on the other hand, to perpetuate slavery. 
In every great people's struggle, blended motives move the actors. 
There were thousands who fought to free the slave; but there were 
many more thousands who fought to save the Union. On this side 
there were thousands who fought to retain property in slaves, but 
there were many, many more thousands who fought to repel 
invasion. 

The right of a sovereign state to withdraw from a federation 
of states has now been settled. If it cost much blood and more 
tears, at least and at last, it has left us united in love for the Flag 
of our un-common country and a joint pride in being Americans. 



ORIGINAL POEM BY A SOUTHERN LADY. 

Poem written by Mrs. Annah Robinson Watson, of Memphis, and 
read by her: 

OUR GALLANT DEAD. 
Where were they born, these gallant Dead, 

On Muster Roll of Fame, 
How shall the faithful scribe of Time 

Record each kniglitly name? 

Whence did they come, wliat altar fire 

Their patriot souls illumined, 
And with its flame in those dark days 

The dross of self consumed? 



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From Minnesota's golden fields 
That toss in shining waves, 

These heroes came, alas, to rest 
In lowly Southern graves. 

On nearby hillsides sleep as well 
Their gallant foes in gray, 

Till spirit bugles softly sound 
The last glad reveille. 

How shall they meet on that fair field 
When battles rage no more, 

And bitter passions all have gone 
With battle's din and roar? 

On that fair field, no North, no South, 
When Muster Roll is read, 

One answer will resound afar 
From all these valiant Dead! 

"Americans!" — Like altar smoke 

Of drifting silver gray, 
Or fading blue of evening sky 

All strife is passed away. 

And now, in this our glorious day, 
A Brotherhood we claim, 

A deathless bond, which must endure, 
Though end there be to Fame! 

"Americans!" against the world! 

The brave who fought in Blue, 
"Americans!" who wore the Gray, 

Together, staunch and true. 

And to the land by blood enriched 
When throbbed the blatant drum, 

Shall Peace, above man's noblest reach. 
Or understanding, come! 

Oil, Minnesota! mighty State! 

Today we bow with thee 
At shrine of these, thy gallant sons, 

Who sleep in Tennessee. 



The Chairman 

We would now be glad to hear a few words from Mr. 
Danby M. Scales, of Memphis, who in the Civil War served as 
a lieutenant in the Confederate Navy on the ship Shenandoah. 

Mr. Scales spoke as follows: 



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LIEUTENANT DANBY M. SCALES. 

Mr. Chairman: 

I esteem it a privilege to be permitted to add a word, even at 
tlie risk of taxing the patience of this audience— after the inspiring 
addresses to which we have listened. I can not forbear to express 
my high appreciation of the spirit which inspired the great Common- 
wealth of Minnesota to pay this splendid tribute to her fallen 
soldiers 

It has been said, Mr. Chairman, that a land without monuments 
is a land without memories; and that monuments are like grappling- 
irons that bind one generation to another. Then, indeed will the 
generations who come after us be linked to our own and the 
memories of these sons of Minnesota, who exemplified their devo- 
tion to their mother State and laid down their lives in her service, 
shall live on and on, and, as Tennyson so beautifully wrote, like 

"Our echoes roll from soul to soul 
And grow forever and forever." 

How shall I express my gratification at the sentiment that 
seems to pervade these ceremonies! 

It would seem that the sight which met our eyes at tae 
entrance of these beautiful grounds had been the inspiration for the 
touching and uplifting sentiment of the Invocation of Rev. Doctor 
Williamson. 

As we approached the gateway, there was seen, just entering, 
two figures-one a bent form in gray, with uncertain and almost 
tottering steps, leaning upon the arm of another, tall and erect, who 
wore the insignia of the G. A. R. I may tell you now that this tot- 
tering form was one of the bravest of the brave, who followed 
Forrest to the end; that this tall figure on whose arm he leaned-an 
officer of high rank in the G. A. R., is his neighbor and his friend- 
brothers now, who stood in opposing ranks in that great conflict, 
well styled by Abraham Lincoln as "a conflict of constitutional 
ideas." 

It is good for us. Confederates, to be here, and to touch elbows 
with the IG. A. R. men, and to listen to the patriotic and friendly 
expressions from the leaders of thought on the other side of the 
border-or better still, to realize that the border is wiped out; and 
that, at last we are a reunited people— a compact Nation, welded 
together by a rewritten constitution, under one flag, Americans all, 
in an "Indissoluble Union of Indestructible States." 



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The Chairman, General Andrews: 

Before dismissing this assembly, I desire on behalf of 
our Commission and of the State of Minnesota to thank the 
Committee of Citizens of Memphis who have shown us so 
much kind attention, and you fellow citizens who have hon- 
ored us by your presence and co-operation in these exercises; 
and especially I wish to thank Mrs. Watson for her fine poem and 
Miss GePber for her beautiful solo; also the other singers and the 
musicians. We will not soon forget your kindness. Nor will we 
soon forget your city. On the way to this cemetery I was taken 
through one of your great parks. Its no'ble, undulating surface, 
great extent, beautiful roads, and magnificent natural hardwood 
forest excited my admiration. I have seen many parks in this 
country and in Europe, but none more beautiful than yours. There 
is a grandeur about your city, and no sensible person can pay it a 
visit without deriving inspiration. 



MINNESOTA SOLDIERS (UNITED STATES VOLUNTEERS) WHO ARE 
BURIED IN THE NATIONAL CEMETERY AT MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE 



THIRD MINNESOTA REGIMENT, U. S. VOLS. 

NAME Rank Co. Date and Place of Death 

Austin, Anton Priv. D Oct. S, 1863, Memphis, Tenn. 

Babcock, Nathan Priv. I Oct. 4, 1863, Memphis, Tenn. 

Carmezie, William Priv. C Aug. 18, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

Dean, Henry L Priv. I July 26, 1863, on boat near Helena. 

Hartzhorn, Jesse Priv. C Sept. 19, 1863, Memphis, Tenn. 

Shoret, Augustin Priv. I Nov. 29, 18(i4, Memphis, Tenn. 

Sneider, John Priv. K Jan. 12, 186.3, Memphis, Tenn. 

Stanton, Roswell Priv. K Dee. 20, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

Swanson, John Priv. D Sept. 12, 1863, Memphis, Tenn. 

Ward, Henry Priv. K Jan. 8, 186.5, Memphis, Tenn. 

FOURTH MINNESOTA REGIMENT, U. S. VOLS. 

NAME Rank Co. Date and Place of Death 

Daniels, David Priv. G Jan. 9, 1863. Holly Springs, :Miss. 

Dow, Horace L Priv. ¥ Veh. 24, 1863, Memphis, Tenn. 

Haley, Charles E Priv. I April 24, 1863, Memphis, Tenn. 

Magnus, John Priv. H June 15, 1863, Memphis, Tenn. 

Loomis, Henry Priv. K June 9, 1863, Memi)his, Tenn. 

Rees, Thomas Corporal E Jan. 20, 1864, in hospital. 

Reuter, Henry Priv. G June 5, 1863. 

Scale, Thomas Wagoner . . . .\ug. 21, 1863. 

Sherman. Francis Priv. K June, 1863, Milliken's Bend, La. 

Tipton, Kphraira Priv. A Feb. 10, 1863, Memphis, Tenn. 

Tuthill, William S Priv. E Jan. 13, 1803, LaGrange, Tenn. 

Wornell, John A Priv. D March 1.5, 1803, Memphis, Tenn. 

FIFTH MINNESOTA REGIMENT, U. S. VOLS. 

NAME Rank Co. Date and Place of Death 

1st Lieut, William Organ K April 30, 1802, :Memphis, Tenn. 

Annis, George M Priv. F Sept. 22, 1863, Memphis, Tenn. 

Case, Maxim Priv. 1) ^March 12, 1863, Germantown, Tenn. 

Crook, James E Priv. D Nov. 1863, Memphis, Tenn. 

Farnsworth, Marvin O Priv. . . .Aug. 11, 1863, Memphis, Tenn. 

Fotson, Isaac Priv. F Feb. 20, 1865. Memphis, Tenn. 



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NAME Hank 

Hiiiiilin, Jesse H Priv. 

Johnson, John I'riv. 

Ktrii, Kcrdinaiid Priv. 

Kirkhain, Allen 11 Priv. 

Muiuiav, James M Corporal 

NisKott', Gottlieb Priv. 

O'Mera, James Priv. 

Peterson, Peter Priv. 

Quinnellv, Thos Priv. 

Sehoe, Wendell Priv. 

Shortlidge, Isaac Priv. 

Tome, O. J Priv. 

Weibel, Joseph Priv. 

Wvnian, Allen H Priv. 

White, Orlo F Priv. 



Co. Dale and Plaee of Death 

.V March 11, 1S()3, (lermantown, '!'< ini. 

H Oct. Vi. l.S()3, .Memi)his, T.nn. 

E Sept. 22, 18(13, Memphis, Tenn. 

II March 19, 1SG3, La Grange, Tenn. 

15 Jan. 2, 1803, La (Irange, Tenn. 

I) Nov. 23, ]S(i3, Memphis. Tenn. 

F Sept. 10, lSt;3. MetM|)his, Tenn. 

(i Jan. 1, 18ti3, Mempliis, Tenn. 

A June 3, 18(11. Memphis, Tenn. 

E Fel). 17, ISdt. Memphis, Tenn. 

E April 11, 1S(13, Memphis, Tenn. 

H Feb. IS. 18(1.-), Memphis, Tenn. 

I Oct. 14, 18(13. Memphis, Tenn. 

F April IT). IStl.-,, Memphis, Tenn. 

H 



SIXTH MINNESOTA REGIMENT, U. S. VOLS. 

NAME Rank Co. Date and Place of Death 

Allen, Miles Priv. B Aug. (1, 1S(J4, Helena, Ark. 

Arbuckle, Benjamin F Priv. A Sept. 8, 18(54, Memphis, Tenn. 

Babcock, Clinton L Priv. C Aug. 0, 18(54, Helena, Ark. 

Barrows, Luther Priv, K Sept. 14, 1864, Helena, Ark. 

Batford, William Priv. B Sept. 3, 1SG4, Helena, Ark, 

Beare, Townsend Priv. A Julv 17, 1864, White River, Ark. 

Boaz, Michael Priv. E Aug. 16, 18(54, Helena, Ark. 

Boright, Americus Priv. H Jidy 27, 18(14, Helena, .\rk. 

Brumelle, Louis Priv. A Julv 24, 18(14, White River, Ark. 

Cady, Henry W Priv. F Oct. 23, 18(14, Helena, Ark. 

Carlson, John Priv. I Sept. 3, 1864, ilemphis, Tenn. 

Call, Rufus H Priv. A .\ug. 7, 18(54, Helena, Ark. 

Carpenter, John A Priv. I Sept. 6, 18(54, Helena, Ark. 

Cates. Mariner W Priv. D Julv 31, 1864, Helena, Ark. 

Champlin, D. B Priv. B Aug. 12, 1864, Helena, Ark. 

Chappens, John Priv. H Aug. 12, 1864, Helena, Ark. 

Chadwick, Robert Priv. A Oct. 6, 18(54, Memphis, Tenn. 

Closson, Amasa Corporal C Aug. 1, 1864, Helena, Ark. 

Costeljo, Samuel W Priv. D Oct. 23, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

Crandinier, Henry Priv. X Aug. 30, 1864, Helena, Ark. 

Daniels, Arthur M Priv. G Sept. 13, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

Davis, Samuel F Priv. C Julv 29, 18(54, Helena, Ark. 

Ditter, Colander Priv. H Aug. 23, 1864, Helena, Ark. 

Dreis, John Priv. (i Aug. 4, 1864, Helena, Ark. 

Duffy, Samuel Priv. H Aug. 13, 1864, Helena, Ark. 

Fair, John Priv. K Nov. 1, 18(54, Helena, Ark. 

Galpin, Charles E Priv. D Sept. 13, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

Holmes, Griffin Priv. K July 15, 1864, Helena, Ark. 

Humes, James I Priv. H Aug. 13, 1864, Helena, Ark. 

Johnson, Anke Priv. A Aug. 9, 1864, Helena, Ark. 

Koping, Ludvig Priv. A Sept. 19, 1864, Helena, Ark. 

MeClintoek, John T Corporal C July 12, 1864, Helena, Ark. 

McDowell, Benjamin Sergeant H Aug. 18, 1864, Helena, Ark. 

Mead, George Priv. G Sept. 1, 1864, Helena, Ark. 

Nasland, Gudman Priv. F Sept. 22, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

Olds, Thomas B Corporal H Aug. 31, 1864, Helena, Ark. 

Pettlbone, John H Priv. F Aug. 2, 1864, Helena, Ark. 

Pratt, William Sergeant A Sept. 22, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

Rachel, Joseph Priv. E July 27, 1864. 

Rassian, Jean Priv. E 1864, Helena, Ark. 

Renter, Henrv Priv. E Julv 2.5, 1864, Helena, Ark, 

Robinson, John B Priv. B Aug. 30, 1861, Helena, Ark. 

Robinson, William Priv. C Aug. 16, 1864, Helena, Ark. 

Sanderson, Theodore H Priv. C Aug. 17, 1864, Helena, Ark. 

Shellenberger. .\ugust Priv. C July 16, 1864, Helena, Ark. 

Simons, John L Priv. A Sept. 7, 1964, Memphis, Tenn. 

Smith, John Priv. (i Sept. 4, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

Stevens, Charles F Priv. A Sept. 1, 1864, Helena, Ark. 

Stubbs, Enos P. Priv. B Oct. 2, 1864, Helena, Ark. 

Sylvester, Franklin Sergeant H Oct. 31, 1864, Helena, Ark. 

Todd, David E .Priv. F Dec. 17, 1864, Helena, Ark. 

Wetterau, Henrv Priv. E Aug. 5, 1864, Helena, .\rk. 

Whitcomb, Edward E Priv. C July 25, 1864, Helena, Ark. 

Whitney, Douglas Priv. I June 19, 186,5, Memphis, Tenn. 

Williams, August Priv. F^ Aug. 23, 1864, Helena, Ark. 

Williams, John Priv. I Sept. 2, 1864, Helena, Ark. 

Wier, William T Priv. K July 30, 18(54, Helena, Ark. 

Woodbury, George H Priv. H July 27, 1864, Helena, Ark. 



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SEVENTH MINNESOTA REGIMENT, U. S. VOLS. 

NAME Rank Co. Dale and Place of Death 

Allen, Uriah F Corporal I July 5, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

Anderson, Carl Priv. C July 27, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

Anderson, Swan Priv. C Nov. .5, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

Bathrick, Andrew Priv. D March 25, lS(i."), Memphis, Tenn. 

Butterfield. David I Priv. I Sept. 6, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

Carlson, Peter J Priv. C Sept. 17, 1864. Memphis, Tenn. 

Clendening, Joseph Corporal C Dec. 20. lS(i4, Memphis. Tenn. 

Dahlstrom, Andrew Priv. C Sept. 9, ls(i4, Memphis, Tenn. 

Damon, William Priv. A Aug. 22, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

EUess, Nattey D Priv. E Oct. 27, 1864, .Memphis, Tenn. 

Gibnev, Peter Priv. E Aug. 15, 1864. Memphis, Tenn. 

Goods'ell, Daniel Priv. .\ Oct. 4. 1864, .Memphis, Tenn. 

Hoag, Calvin Corporal E Oct. 29, 1S64, Memphis, Tenn. 

Holbert, George Priv. B PVb. 28, 1865, St. Louis, Mo. (.^) 

Howe, Barzillia D Priv. R Nov. 9, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

Jellison. Jeremiah F Sergeant C Aug. 17, 1864, Memphis. Tenn. 

Johnson, John A Priv. G Oct. 5, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

Kelsey, John Priv. C Oct. 12, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

Kiefer, Ignats Priv. I .\ug. .'5. 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

Lamey, Joseph Corporal B April 9, 1865, Memphis, Tenn. 

Little^ Cvrus P Priv. K Aug. 20, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

Lloyd, Albert Priv. E Oct. 21, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

Marsh, Noah D Priv. B Oct. 17, 1864, Mempliis, Tenn. 

McGowen, John Sergeant E Aug. 3, 1864, {'i) Memphis, Tenn. 

Miner, Joseph Priv. .\ .\ug. 26, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

Nelson, Swen Priv. C Oct. 2.3, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

Ostrande, Henrick Priv. C Oct. 16, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

Oswald, Herman Priv. K Feb. 11, 1865, Memi)his, Tenn. 

Pinknev, John E Priv. I July 26, l,sr,4, Memphis. Tenn. 

Rinde.'Erick H Priv. A Nov. 9, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

Strand, Ole E Corporal G Nov. 16, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

Sundell, Charles J Priv. G Aug. 17, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

Swenour, Lewis Priv. I Feb. 12, 1865, Memphis, Tenn. 

Thompson, Thomas B Priv. E July 3, 1864. Mempliis, Tenn. 

Warr, Charles S Corporal E Sept. 10, 18(;4. Meni|>his. Tenn. 

Woodward, James M Priv. E Oct. 14, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

NINTH MINNESOTA REGIMENT, U. S. VOLS. 

NAME Rank Co. Date and Place of Death 

Barrows, Richmond H Priv. A Feb. 15, 1865, Memphis, Tenn. 

Bean, Pleasant M Priv. D July 15, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

Betts, Peter Priv. F Nov. 15, I860, M(ni])his, Tenn. 

Burge, Manville Priv. C July 15, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

Chaffin, Alden H Priv. C Oct. 23, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

Chute, Francis Corporal B Memphis, Tenn. 

Colton, Marvin E Priv. D Aug. 19, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

Fillmore, Seymour L Wagoner B Sept. 29, 18li4. Memphis, Tenn. 

Gilbert, Martin P Priv. G July 11, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

Green, Clark L Priv. H Nov. 25, 1864, MeMi|)his. Tenn. 

Green, Martin Priv. F Oct. 27, 1864, Mempliis, Tenn. 

Griffin, Michael Priv. A Nov. 4, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

Hamen, Andrew Priv. H Nov. 6, 1864. .Memphis, Tenn. 

Hanson, Hans Priv. H Oct. 16, 1864, Meni|)his, Tenn. 

Hills, Byron Priv. B Nov. 6, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

Kinghorn, William A Priv. I Sept. 6, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

Lent, William N Priv. C Aug. 4, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

Marsh, Francis W Priv. E Sept. 2, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

Nickerson, David R Priv. E Aug. 1, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

Rice, Absolom Priv. A Jan. 22, 1865. Memjihis, Tenn. 

Shack, Frederick Priv. D Aug. 14, 1864. Memphis, Tenn. 

Shoppe, George P Priv. k. .\ug. 5, 1864, ^h•nlpllis, Tenn. 

Small, John Priv. G Sept. 28, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

Stageman, John Priv. G Feb. 21, 1865, Mempliis, Tenn. 

Stevenson, Charles Priv. F Feb. 18, 1865. Memphis, Tenn, 

Thein, Stephen Priv. G Sept. 28, 1864, Meiiii)his, Tenn. 

Wahl, Melchoir Priv. H July 24, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

Wakefield, John B Priv. B Aug. 13, 1864. Memphis, Tenn. 

TENTH MINNETOTA REGIMENT, U. S. VOLS. 

NAME Rank Co. Date and Place of Death 

Berg, Ulrick R Priv. D Oct. 1, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 

Bloomhover, David Priv. I July 18, 1864, Memphis, Tenn. 



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NjVME Rii'ik ("<). Date iuul Place of Ucalli 

r,.mnl,pll VIpvanHer Priv. B Dec. 27, 186-1, Memphis, IVnn. 

F^'Sti^s G : ;:::;:::::. Prlv. C March 5. ISOo, Mon.ph.s, Tenn. 

Gates. George W P-. K June 26 SM M. n, ph.. ,..,,.,. 

Hancock, Gilbert r J'^^' V. \ *i «:; ivr-. m,.,.m1.w 'r.nn 

Hus. Ole O. . . . rn^; j ^j , ^o, isC,:,, Mrmphis. Tea. 

Iten, Jacob |,^ • j , ^ j^,,- ^,, „„,,,;,. t,.„„. 

Johnson, John . . {"/ • ^,. ^,,., ,,i, -p.-nn. 

Muldleton, bamuel ' r^ ■ '< ai t i ivi", \l,.,„.,l,i^ 'r,iiri 

T>- 1 it T ,u„ I Priv r March 11, IS'i), .Mriniiliis, iMUi. 

Picket , John I. . . W .Voner I July 9, ISIU. M.i.,|,hi., Tcnii. 

Reynolds, George J f,ff "" ; Sept. 27, IMW, Mrlnphis, Ten,,. 

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Exercises at Andersonville, Georgia 

In the National Cemetery, September 26, 1916, at 10 
O'clock a. m., Dedicating the Monument Therein Erect- 
ed by the State of Minnesota in Memory of Her Vol- 
unteer Soldiers of the Civil War There Buried. :-: :-: 

General Christopher C. Andrews, Chairman of the Minnesota 
Commission, presided. 

PRAYER 

Offered by The Rcx'. ('fo. JMacDoncU Acrcc, M. E. Church, South 
Amcricus, Ga., at the unveiling of the '"Minnesota Monument in the 
National Cemetery at Andersonvitle., Ga., September 26th, ig/6. 

O Lord, Our Lord, How excellent is thy name in all the earth. 
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed 
the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou 
art God. 

We come before Thee this morning with grateful hearts, thank- 
ing Thee that through Thy providence and goodness concerning us, 
we have been spared to see this, another beautiful day. We thank 
Thee that we live and move and have our being. 

We thank Thee for the spirit of this occasion which calls us 
together at this hour; and as we stand today with bowed heads over 
a part of the Nation's honored dead (the beloved dead of the State 
of "Minnesota"), we thank Thee for that great spirit of loyalty and 
devotion and heroism which predominated in the lives of these 
patriots and caused them to go forth to fight for what each side 
believed was right. Blessed was that spirit which flowed in the 
hearts of these patriots, for we know that 

"If there be on this terrestrial sphere, 

A boon, an offering. Heaven holds dear, 

'Tis the last libation liberty draws 

From the heart that bleeds, and breaks, in its cause," 

Sweet be the sleep of these "Sons of Minnesota" in their 
sepulchers here beneath the dewed sod of our peaceful "Southland," 
until the earth and sea shall give up their dead, and God shall wipe 
laway the tears from our eyes, and there shall be no more death, 
neither sorrow nor crying nor pain. 

Especially do we thank Thee, Our Father, for the spirit of 
devotion and love to their heroic dead, which burns in the hearts of 



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these, our fellow-countrymen, who have come for miles to pay their 
tribute of love at the shrine of these sleeping about us today. And 
as we erect this beautiful memorial to this part of those who fought 
and bled and died in the struggle of the "Sixties," may we as North- 
erners and Southerners strike hands at the grave of our common 
brother, and know that the war whicli once divided us is over, and 
that we are forever united into one brotherhood, under one flag, one 
country and one God. Bless our coming together today, and as 
we leave this hallowed spot may we go away feeling and knowing 
that we love each other 'better. May we go away knowing that we 
are no longer a nation divided against itself, but that the cords of 
union and love which were once broken are vibrating once more, 
and are destined to vibrate till the end of time. 

Unite us in bonds of love; keep us in charity with all mankind; 
incline our hearts to walk humbly before Thee, and help us so to 
acquit ourselves in this life, that we may dwell with Thee and our 
l<oved ones in Life Everlasting. These blessings we ask in the 
name of our Blessed Redeemer. Amen. 



The Chairman 

There were eighty-five men of the Ninth Minnesota Regi- 
ment who died in the Confederate prison here at Andersonville 
and who were buried in this cemetery. One of our Commis- 
sioners, Mr. C. F. Macdonald, was mustered into that regiment at 
the age of nineteen years as a sergeant, and at the close of the war 
had the rank of lieutenant. He was not exactly a native of the 
same country as Burns, but he was a native of New Scotland — 
Nova Scotia. He has served as State Senator of Minnesota, as 
Coimmander of the Minnesota Department of the G. A. R., and is 
now and for many years has been editor of an influential Democratic 
journal at St. Cloud, Minn. We will now be glad to listen to an 
address from him. 

ADDRESS BY HON. C. F. MACDONALD. 

Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: 

We have come here today from Minnesota, the far North Star 
State, to dedicate this monument in honor of her sons who lie here 
buried. They responded to the call of their State and the Federal 
Government, to defend the Union, and they gave up their lives as a 
sacrifice to their loyalty. Individually, this is an occasion of pe- 
culiar significance to me. There lie in this cemetery So of my 
regimental comrades. We were pioneer boys together, we enlisted 



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together, we marched together, we fought together, we endured all 
the hardships of army life together— they gave up their lives that 
the Union might be preserved. 

The Ninth Regiment of Minnesota Volunteer Infantry was en 
listed in August, 1862. While the recruits were rushing to Fort 
Snelling, in response to President Lincoln's call, the great Sioux 
Indian outbreak of that year occurred, August 15th, and the volun- 
teers were hurried to the frontier, which was ravaged by the 
savages with all the horrors of Indian warfare. One thousand men, 
women and children were slaughtered. The following year tlie 
regiment was ordered south, and served in Missouri, Tennessee, 
Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Alabama, participating in 
numerous campaigns and battles. 

To me, this is an occasion of sorrow and joy. Sorrow that my 
boy comrades should have died-joy that the dark clouds of war 
have long since passed away, that we are again a united, happy 
and prosperous people-one nation, one flag, one sentiment animat- 
ing all hearts— pride in our common country and firm resolve that 
the republic will endure and continue through the centuries to be 
the greatest, freest and wisest governed nation on earth. 

The granite shaft which we have brought from the far North- 
land to this great State of the Southland, is emblematic of restora- 
tion of the peace and harmony which now reigns in all this blessed 
nation Upon its imperishable stone is chiseled an olive branch, 
marking perpetual good will North, South, East and West. The 
figure of the young warrior upon the shaft does not bespeak con- 
flict, battle and carnage, but that of a boy-soldier in an attitude of 
sorrow at the grave of a comrade. 

We come here today in the spirit of Georgia's late, brilliant 
and eloquent young son, Henry W. Grady, who, more than thirty 
years ago, sounded the first notes of a "New South," and who, in 
his brief but zealous career won the love of his people of the South- 
land and the admiration and esteem of the entire nation. He was a 
son of a Southern soldier, who died in battle. The son would not 
admit that his father or the South was in the wrong. In a speech 
at a banquet in Boston in 1886, he said: 

"The South has nothing for which to apologize. She 
believes that the late struggle between the States was war 
and not rebellion, revolution and not conspiracy. 

Then he added: 

"I am glad that the Omniscient God held the balance of 
battle in His Almighty hand and that human slavery was 
swept forever from American soil-the American Union 
saved from the wreck of war!" 



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And then, those men of New England sprang to their feet and 
cheered to the echo this young champion of the New South. Of 
Abraham Lincoln he said on the same occasion: 

"He who stands as the first typical American, the first 
who comprehended within himself all the strength and gen- 
tleness, all the majesty and grace of this republic — Abraham 
Lincoln." 

Three years later Henry W. Grady, the South's favorite orator, 
passed away, ere he had reached life's meridian. At a great 
memorial meeting, held in his honor in Atlanta, one of the orators 
used the following eloquent language: 

"What was he to the nation? Compelled by the limi- 
tations of the hour to answer in one word, I clioose this: 
'He it was who first taught the rising generation of the 
iSouith to bind the name of Lincoln with that of Washington 
as a sign upon their hand and a frontlet upon their brow!" 

I have ever cherished a great admiration for Henry W. Grady, 
and I am gratified to embrace this my first opportunity in his 
native state to express that feeling. He it was who first pointed 
the way to a new and prosperous South. He it was who first de- 
clared that the South alone was fitted to solve and control the negro 
problem; that within the South there were natural resources that 
would make her rich beyond the dreams of the past, and the rising 
generations — the young men of the South — would cause her to rise, 
phoenix-like, from her ashes, to be the richest portion of the Amer- 
ican republic. That his pro'phesy is rapidly approaclaing realiza- 
tion, our visit of the past six days to many Southern states has 
convinced us. 

Young men of Georgia and the Southland, you should honor 
and revere the memory of the brilliant and courageous leader wlio, 
thirty years ago, raised the banner of a new South. I congratulate 
you upon the fact that you are following his teachings and that this 
region, under your energy and ability, is moving forward with 
marvelous speed to a wonderful era of agricultural, commercial and 
manufacturing greatness. 

And so today we have come from the far North to this State of 
Henry W. Grady's birth to re-echo his sentiments, to rejoice that 
his prophesy of a new and most prosperous South has been realized 
and to thank God that we again are one people. 

It is said that when the ancient Greeks builded monuments 
to commemorate their victories over a foreign enemy they sought 
out granite and adament, that they might endure for ages to tell 



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the story of the valour of the Greeks. But, when they wished to 
mark victories of Greeks over Greeks, they used the most perish- 
able materials that they might soon decay and pass away, and with 
them all memory of conflicts between their own people. Once I 
thought it would have been wiser if we had followed the example 
of this nation of the dim and shadowy past, but as we of the North- 
land have erected monuments to honor our fallen dead, it is no less 
appropriate that our brothers of the Southland should similarly 
honor their fallen heroes. And now, I can see wherein these monu- 
ments to the men of the North and the men of the South have 
become a great national protection, for, as they dot the battlefields 
of the Southland, standing like sentinels on the citadels of the 
republic, they speak no uncertain warning to the nations of the 
world, as they tell of the intelligence, the gallantry, the endurance, 
the bravery of the American Soldier! 

ADDRESS BY GENERAL THOMAS P. WILSON. 

Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: 

My only credentials today are my membership in this Commis- 
sion, to which I have the honor of belonging, and my place in the 
Fourth Minnesota Regiment of Infantry, which served through the 
Civil war. Wherever we have gone upon our proud and solemn 
mission, I have been made to feel the sympathy, the understanding, 
the comradeship of those with whom we meet. 

The years have brought us all understanding. I do not mean 
mere tolerance, or forgetfulness of once bitter differences, or even a 
better measure in each man's mind of the honesty of conviction and 
the worthiness of purpose in the other. I mean something deeper 
than that. I mean the slow growing but irresistible belief that all 
men of high faith are servants of their time; and that those who 
find something greater than themselves alone are fit to rise or help 
others rise to higher things. 

Such are they above whom these memorials are raised. It 
matters far less to what cause they dedicated all they had to give 
than that they were willing to give all. For by some deep law 
whose mysteries we have not fathomed, the world must find, must 
offer, must lose such as these were, in order that it may pass out of 
darkness into light. Every victory must have its crippled and its 
dead. Every summit is reached by paths cleared only through the 

suffering of many. 

We do honor to heroic achievement today. It finds its fullest 
and finest expression in the pain of the hospital bed and the need 



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and loneliness of the prison. For these are a part of the universal 
fellowship of mankind. From them have always grown, are grow- 
ing today, new faith, new life, new strength for the world. Less in 
memory of the past than in salutation to the child of her pain, the 
future, do we pay these tributes and raise these monuments. 



ADDRESS BY MR. HENRY B. DIKE. 

Mr. Chairman, Comrades, Ladies and Gentlemen: 

This, "God's Acre," beautiful for situation; where flitting from 
bough to bough, among the leaves of these splendid bays and mag- 
nolias, the charming song birds of the Southland warble their songs 
of joy and praise; hallowed by the sleeping heroes, who slumber in 
their earthly tents beneath its sod; tenderly and lovingly cared for 
by a grateful Nation; is to me a place where all the notes of appre- 
ciation, sympathy and love coalesce in a grand symphony of sweet- 
est melody, that shall ever touch with its grandeur and sublimity 
the responsive chords of gratitude and affection in the heart of every 
lover of our country and our flag. A symphony that will vibrate 
and thrill down the ages of time, with the sweetness of its treble, 
the tenderness of its alto, the beauty of its tenor, and the profund- 
ity of its diapason notes, until every heart, from the lakes to the 
gulf, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, shall join in its mighty 
"Hallelujah Chorus" of appreciation and thanksgiving, that because 
what they and their comrades endured, suffered and sacrificed, the 
unity of the Nation was established, its perpetuity assured, and the 
glory of its flag maintained. 

He, who in defense of his Country and the honor of its flag, 
bares his breast to the bullet, the sword and bayonet, and faces 
the cannon's mouth, willing to die if needs be, is a hero, and is de- 
serving of our respect, honor and love, but no less a hero, and en- 
titled to the same respect, honor and love of his countrymen, is he 
who endures privation and suffers the pangs and agony of hunger, 
disease and pestilence, and yields his life as a free will offering 
upon the altar of devotion to the glory and honor of the flag, of the 
land to which he owes his allegiance and his love. 

The boys who wore the blue in the Nation's struggle for exist- 
ence, "Heroes true with hearts of gold," who are resting here, in 
this "bivouac of the dead" and over whose "tents of green" these 
sentries in white stand silent and motionless, who chose rather to 
sufter and die than renounce their loyalty to their Country and their 
fidelity to its flag, in so doing displayed a valor and heroism and 
exhibited a courage not excelled by those who in the conflict of 



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battle made the sacrifice of their lives, for tiie same cause and for 
the same purpose. To them the roar of cannon, the rattle of mus- 
ketry amid the strife and din of battle would have been solace and 
sweetest music. 

As the Southern breezes softly blow, amid the foliage and 
flowers, of these magnolias, moaning their requiem, and their "glory 
walks the pathway of the stars," the heart of a grateful Country 
is thrilled by the sublime symphony of their devotion, their suffer- 
ing, their sacrifice and love in its behalf. "They have left a name, 
with never a stain for our tears to wash away." Their heroism and 
valor, the anguish of soul of mothers, wives and loved ones at home, 
who with tear-dimmed eyes and broken hearts waited, hoped, 
listened, for the footfall on the threshold, of the one dearer to them 
than life itself, who never returned; has never been surpassed and 
only equaled by the brave and heroic boys who wore the gray, and 
the noble women of the Southland, who with bowed heads and tear- 
furrowed cheeks, gave the dearest jewels of their hearts for the 
cause they firmly and honestly believed to be right. Today, as we 
look back over the half century and more that has elapsed since 
our Civil War and note that we are a united people, united in love 
for our flag and devotion to our Country, and realize that every 
stone in our National structure is firmly cemented together by the 
tears of the self-sacrificing women of the North and South and the 
blood of the heroes of the blue and gray that comingled on the 
field of battle, shall we not, here and now, in gratitude for the 
lasting heritage they bequeathed us, pledge ourselves to increased 
loyalty and united effort for its upbuildings, its perpetuity, and that 
for all time, in ever-increasing glory, it may be a beacon light of 
peace, justice and righteousness for all the nations of the earth. 

To you, my fellow citizens of our Southland, who are here 
today, who have left your labors and your homes to join with us in 
honoring the memory of our beloved heroes who slumber in this 
"City of the dead," to my associates here and myself, your presence 
is an earnest of mutual sympathy, fellowship and love, that 
the "dead past has buried its dead," and that our hearts beat in 
unison, that our hands are joined in fraternal respect for each 
other, and that we stand together in patriotic devotion to our Coun- 
try and for the honor of our flag. 

For the brave, courageous and heroic boys of the gray there is 
not even the shadow of hate in my soul. I recognize their sincerity 
and their valor, and my respect, admiration and brotherly love goes 
out to them, and today I willingly give my hand and the best wishes 



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of my heart to their living, and pluck the lillies, twine a wreath 
and reverently lay it upon the green sod, beneath which repose the 
ashes of their dead. 

To the faithful and beloved sons of Minnesota, their home State, 
in grateful and loving remembrance of their suffering. and death in 
the prison pen yonder, has erected and today has dedicated to their 
imperishable fame and in memory of their heroism and service to 
their Country, their suffering and sacrifice in its behalf, this ever- 
enduring memorial of metal and stone, that what they did, and 
what they suffered and the vicarious sacrifice of their lives, may 
never be forgotten until the fading twilight of time shall merge 
into the dawn of the Eternal Day. 

We are accustomed to speak of those who for a time are sep- 
arated from us, and whose mortal bodies we lay away in the bosom 
of Mother Earth, as dead, but men who toil and struggle, suffer and 
sacriiice for the uplift of humanity, the establishment of justice 
and righteousness on the earth, the freedom of men and the honor 
and glory of their Country, never die. They live enshrined in our 
hearts and the hearts of posterity. They live in the records of their 
Country's achievement and its glory. 

"Forever near us though unseen, 
The dear immortal spirits tread. 
For all the boundless Universe 
Is life — there are no dead." 



The Chairman 

I now have the pleasure of introducing Adjutant General Wood 
of Minnesota, who served as a captain in the Spanish War, and 
who on this occasion represents the Governor of Minnesota. 

ADDRESS OF ADJUTANT GENERAL WOOD. 

General Andrews, Members of the Minnesota Commission, 
Ladies and Gentlemen, and to You of the Coming Generation: 

I esteem it a privilege to be present today as the representative 
of the great State of Minnesota at the personal request of his ex- 
cellency, Governor Burnquist, who expressed his sincere regret at 
his at>sence caused by a previous official engagement. 

If the Governor were here he would undoubtedly express him- 
self in that fitting language of which he is a master, as he did at 
Little Rock and Memphis, and would not only voice his personal 
feelings, but would speak in behalf of the Commonwealth of Minne- 
sota. Acting for him, it may be proper for me to say that my being 



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here gives me more pleasure tlian I can express in words, and I 
desire at this time to thank the citizens of Georgia for the kindness 
and courtesy extended to our party and for your presence here nnd 
in this expression we are most sincere. 

We come from Minnesota to do honor to her soldier dead and 
to show to others that our reverence for them has been marked in 
a most substantial way-to say to you that those buried here are 
true heroes in the fullest sense of the word, even though they did 
not die on the battlefield, because man can give no more than life 
itself For life without honor is not worth the living and the short 
span that is given to man even at its greatest length is nothing 
compared with the sustaining of the dignity and strength of the 
Nation and the keeping alive that patriotism which is so essential 
to its existence. 

It seems to me that today I can hear two voices. The first 
voices the immeasurable value of law and peace. It says to us that 
you blood brothers of the North and South have joined hands and 
declared that war should close and peace with all its blessings pre- 
vail, that every citizen may find the doors of justice open for the 
punishment of wrong and the enforcement of right, that the hum- 
blest might stand side by side with the highest in the settlement of 
all questions of public policy and that as all once voluntarily con- 
sented to the establishment of our government, only in like manner 
should any change be made in its provisions. That the will of the 
people incarnated in the constitution and statutes should be obeyed 
by every one, and that all questions of policy, all disputes as to 
rights of property or obligations of contracts should be settled 
properly in the courts or at the ballot box. 

Both sides in this great conflict believed they were right and 
their bravery is unquestioned. Yet those who lie buried here, be- 
lieving as they did, died in order that the Stars and Stripes might 
not only float on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico as well as by the 
Great Lakes. But also floating triumphantly it should speak to 
every child of America the comforting words of assured peace and 

law. 

The other voice says that they gave what they had for the land 
of the free, and now the new union caused by this mingling of blood 
has opened every door to each individual and to him who wills and 
strives there is no place of influence or power which does not hold 
out the equal invitation. 

Today the humblest child may look upon the White House with 
expectation. The poorest and most friendless student may begin 



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with faith and hope his struggle for a seat on the highest judicial 
bench of the Nation. This is so today and under this new amalga- 
mation, God grant that it may ever remain a land of equal rights 
and equal opportunities. Not an equality of life or living which is 
compelled, for wherever there is such compulsion results are im- 
possible, whether the master be a single despot or a mob, but the 
equality of the Declaration of Independence, "The equal possession 
of certain inalienable rights, life, liberty and the pursuit of hap- 
piness." 

The right of each individual to choose for himself his life and 
work and to pursue that life and work subject to no dominion and 
realizing all the success that the intensity of his life and work 
deserve. 

In the shadow of the old world torn by a cruel war, a kind 
Providence permits us to assemble here in the sunshine of peace 
and prosperity to perform this sacred duty. 

We have met to bear witness that the lives of the brave shoald 
not pass from the memory of the living when the body yields to 
death, nor indeed when it has fully and for long years become a 
part of mother earth. 

Noble lives apart from the clay which moved or acted in har- 
mony with its exalted aspirations and purposes may at all times 
and indeed at any period in the sublime cycle of time challenge t]ie 
admiration of the living, may and should become a copy — a model 
of life. 

" 'Tis not all of life to live or all of death to die." 

While we pay tribute to the gallant men who brought their sac- 
rifices in this service, let us not forget the mothers, wives and 
sweethearts of the Northland and the South, true representaives of 
American womanhood, who sent their loved ones with a God-speed 
to their colors, while they remained at home silently suffering and 
toiling for the common welfare — grand and noble they were, a 
shining light to their descendants. 

We of the younger generation should seek to emulate the ex- 
ample set before us. We can never repay you for your services, 
but we can as in 1898 assay to keep up the prestige of "Old Glory" 
and to transmit it to the coming generations brilliant and unsullied. 

In a country like ours patriotism is all the more needed. The 
people rule and they must be competent to manage public affairs. 
If we shall continue to prosper and maintain our national integrity 
and honor, children at home and in schools should be taught the 
value of "union." Why, Grant, Lee and other great generals in both 



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the Northern and Southern armies have become liousehold words. 
And how when i)eaee came hundreds of thousands of brave trained 
men laid aside tlieir weapons and tool< up again tlie peaceable con- 
quest of the wilderness. 

Let us foster genuine patriotism on every possible occasion. A 
patriotic life infuses itself into the real life of the Nation. It forces 
itself into its endearing character. 

No day in the life of a nation should come when the living can 
afford to let go a record of her dead. 

The nation that does not keep in memory their deeds deserves 
no place in the list of honored nations. She will merit and receive 
the scorn of the civilized world. 

Every American citizen should be an American. He should 
love the government under which he lives and honor its democratic 
characteristics. 

Standing here 'before this monument today, let us swear fidelity 
to the principles of right that lie at the foundation of all good gov- 
ernment, to insist by voice and vote upon an administration of the 
government in harmony with its characters and laws; and to teach 
the youth the lessons of patriotism everywhere found in our na- 
tional history. 

In behalf of tlie State of Minnesota, I wish to congratulate the 
members of this Commission on the beautiful masterpieces which 
you have erected and to thank you and each of you for the personal 
sacrifices you have made in the carrying out of your labors and to 
say to you sirs that the people of Minnesota are deeply indebted 
to you. 



The Chairman 

It is very gratifying to our Commission to have present 
with us today a most worthy Confederate veteran of Americus, 
Georgia, in his 74th year, who joined the 12th Georgia regi- 
ment of infantry June 15th, 1861, as a private, served as such 
through the war, was in many of the greater battles, and has served 
several years as commander of the Georgia Division of the United 
Confederate Veterans. On account of his excellent record, his com- 
munity gives him the title of general; and I now with pleasure in- 
troduce him as General H. T. Davenport. 

ADDRESS OP" H. T. DAVENPORT. 

Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Minnesota State Monumental 

Commission: 

This is indeed a surprise to me to be called on at the conclu- 
sion of your regular program, to participate in your memorial 



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exercise. As a citizen of Georgia, in whose bosom rest the 95 
deceased veterans of your state, I esteem it an honored privilege 
to respond. Had I expected this pleasure I would have paid some 
attention to preparedness. Now all good citizens and true patriots 
■should heed the demands of duly, the most powerful word in the 
English language as associated with a soldier's life. As an ex-Con- 
federate private soldier, under Generals Lee, Jackson, Stewart, 
Early, Rhodes and others, I gladly recognize the duty and express 
to you my gratification for the conservative, fair and unprejudiced, 
and therefore patriotic, spirit and sentiment characterizing the 
speeches of each of you five gentlemen composing the Minnesota 
State Monumental Commission. If all men of all sections of this 
grand and glorious Country would be governed in their private and 
public lives by the same spirit and sentiment of patriotism you 
have manifested on this sad occasion there would indeed be no 
North, no South, no East, no West — but one grand re-united Coun- 
try, prospering in peace, and devoted to the constitutional principles 
upon which our forefathers founded this republic. It is not our 
immense territory; nor our running waters; nor our unmeasured 
seacoast, with all its shipping interests; nor the untold wealth of 
our people; nor indeed, not our army and navy, that can guarantee 
to us permanent internal peace and an abiding union. But we 
should, and must have a union of hearts and minds to perfect the 
re-union, and present to the world a union of states that our hearts 
can and will truly love, and that our minds can proudly admire, and 
wisely aspire to greater hopes and more righteous attainments, as 
generation succeeds generation. Could we have this, there could 
be no hyphenated citizens ready to commit treasonable acts against 
this, their adopted Country, for the benefit of their fatherland. 
Could the 95 Minnesota veterans, who gave their lives to the Union 
in this prison, and whose memory you are here today to honor in 
the name of their State, speak to us, they would ask for a union of 
hearts of our countrymen of all sections. So would the spirits of 
all the soldiers dead of both North and South. One of your members 
spoke tenderly and admiringly of one of Georgia's distinguished but 
deceased sons, Henry W. Grady. Let me thank him in behalf of all 
Georgians. Another of your members spoke directly to the children 
present. Now children of Georgia, I, too, say to you, whenever you 
hear the Star Spangled Banner by voice or band, stand up; for it 
is our national air. And whenever you pass under or near "Old 
Glory," uncover your head, for it is the flag of our Country, and no 
man or power dare insult it. Whenever you look upon it, remember 



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it stands for the laws of our Country, and that the army and navy 
and every individual able to bear arms, and every dollar of the 
w^ealth of our entire people belong to it, and in return it stands for 
the protection of the rights of all our citizens at home and abroad, 
on land or sea. I was taught when a child to love and honor it, but 
when Georgia seceded in 1861 I went with all of our Georgia boys 
under another flag. For four long and bloody years we fought under 
our Confederate battle flag, against Old Glory, but when we were 
overpowered, our Confederate battle flag was furled, and we swore 
new allegiance to the Stars and Stripes. Since then we of the 
South have been ever willing to honor it, and ready to defend it. 

And now. Gentlemen of the Commission, when our first war 
with a foreign power came, the sons of Confederate veterans vol- 
unteered under "Old Glory" all over the South, and we ex-Confed- 
erates were proud of our sons. And when Fitz. Hugh Lee and Joe 
Wheeler were placed in important commands in Cuba, we rejoiced. 
The first life offered on our Country's altar in that war was Lieut. 
Bagley aboard his ship. He was a son of a Confederate veteran, 
and of the State of North Carolina — that state which sent more 
men in proportion to its population to the armies of the South than 
any other State. We felt that these facts proclaimed and proved 
the loyalty of the South, and that God's hand led young Bagley to 
the altar of his Country as the first offering. I pledge to you today, 
that the surviving Confederate veterans are as loyal to "Old Glory" 
and our Country as they were to the Confederacy, and I do not hesi- 
tate to give you that statement, as a message to all your Minnesota 
veterans. Your 95 Minnesota soldiers and thousands of others are 
sleeping here under Georgia soil. They are ours now as well as 
yours and no Georgian, worthy of his nativity, would disturb or 
dishonor their repose. In perfect sympathy with your Commission 
and your State, in according this just honor due your deceased 
soldiers today, I thank you for your courtesy. 



The Chairiiain 

The reading of the following letter of the Superintendent of 
this Cemetery, accepting our monument, will close these exer- 
cises; and I gladly take the opportunity to thank Mr. Lacy, 
the Superintendent, for his kindness and promptitude in assist- 
ing us on various occasions. I also, in behalf of our Commission 
and State, thank the citizens of Americus for their courteous and 
friendly treatment of us. 



n2 Report of the Minnesota Conuiiission 

LETTER OF SUPERINTENDENT ACCEPTING MONUMENT 

Read by the Chairman. 

Andersonville, Ga. National Cemetery. 
Sept. 26th, '16. 
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Commission: 

In compliance with instructions received from the De- 
partment, it gives me sincere pleasure to accept, on behalf 
of the United States, this beautiful testimonial of the love 
and respect which the State of Minnesota has for her dead. 
Through the years to come, all who look on it will be stirred 
to memory of that band, and will be glad that in bronze 
and stone, with which Time deals lightly, Minnesota has 
found a way to keep alive the memory of her sons. 

Be assured that all care will be given to preserve that 
which adds so beautifully to an already beautiful resting 
place for our dead. 

With thanks to you, to the Commission, and to the 
State, as a representative of the United States, I gladly 
accept this monument. 

Respectfully, 

H. C. LACY, Supt. 



MINNESOTA SOLDIERS (UNITED STATES VOLUNTEERS) WHO ARE 
BURIED IN THE NATIONAL CEMETERY AT ANDERSONVILLE, GEORGIA 



FIRST MINNESOTA BATTERY OF LIGHT ARTILLERY, U. S. VOLS. 
NAME Rank Co. Date and Place of Death 

King, David S Priv. ■ Nov. 16, 1864, Andersonville, Ga. 

FIRST MINNESOTA BATTALION OF INFANTRY, U. S. VOLS. 
NAME Rank Co. Date and Place of Death 

Abraham, George W. F Musician B Nov. 12. 1864 Andersonville Ga. 

Baker, Jefferson, G Priv. A March 1... 1S(..>, Andersonville, Ga. 

SECOND MINNESOTA REGIMENT OF INFANTRY, U. S. VOLS. 

NAME Rank Co. Date and Place of Death 

Miller James O P"v. B June 1.5, 1864, Andersonville, Ga. 

Oleson PeTer Priv. E Nov. 24, 1864, Andersonville, Ga^ 

O cut": Joseph L; ::::::::;:;:.. Corporal C wounded at Keneson Mt., died ^ept. 10, 

1864, at Andersonville. 

Walrich Peter Priv. C Jul.v 24, 1864, Andersonville Ga. 

wfckett', Adam.'. Corporal I Wounded at Chickamauga, died at Ander- 

sonville, Ga. 
Wood, Ashley W Priv. B May 10, 1864, Andersonville, Ga. 

FOURTH MINNESOTA REGIMENT, U. S. VOLS. 

Carrick, Samuel S Priv. G May 4, 1864, An.iersonville, Ga. 



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FIFTH MINNESOTA REGIMENT, U. S. VOLS. 



Ran 

Priv. 

Sciiarf, Henri Priv. 



NAME 
Myers, .Joseph . 



Dali 



I'hi 



of Death 



Co. 

(; Ami;. 13, 1864, Andersonville, Ca. 
K March 22, ISO.i, Arulersonville, (i 



NINTH MINNESOTA REGIMENT, U. S. VOLS. 

NAME Rank Co. Date and Place of Death 

.\ilcock, James Priv. H -Vug. 22, 1<S()1, .\ndersonville, (ia. 

Atkinson, George Priv. V Xur. 12, lS(i4. Amlersonville, Ga. 

Babcoek, L. .\ Sergeant B Sept. 18, IMU, Ainhrsonville, Ga. 

Barnard, Hiram A Priv. .\ Sept. 10, l,S(i4. Andersonville, Ga. 

Becker, George Priv. E July 28, lS(i4, .Vndersonville, Ga. 

Beckley, Frederick Priv. (i Sept. 7, 18(14, Andersonville, Ga. 

Bengtson, Magnus Priv. H Sept. 22, 1S()4. Andersonville, Ga. 

Bisgrove, Isaac Priv. C .\ug. 2fi, 1M'>(, Ainl(Tsi>nville, Ga. 

Brayton, Francis M Priv. B Sept. 4, IMU, AiHlrrM)nville, Ga. 

Breese, David Priv. E Sept. 4, iMil, AndcrxiMville, Ga. 

Burroughs, Hiram Priv. K Sept. 9, 1S()4, Andersonville, Ga. 

Caldwell, John Priv. G -Vndersonville, Ga. 

Cassidy, John Corporal F Oct. 12, 18(14, Andersonville, Ga. 

Clabaugh, James Priv. 1) July 17, 18(34, .\ndersonville, Ga. 

Conklin, Sylvester Priv. I July 27, 18(14, .\ndersonville, Ga. 

Cunimings, George Priv. I Aug. 29, 18(14, .Vndersonville, Ga. 

Davis, Evan J Priv. E Oct. 1.5, isr.t. An.l.TM.nville, Ga. 

Durham, Robert H Priv. K Sept. 8, iM'.t. A^d^r^onville, Ga. 

Frank, Enoch M Priv. B Oct. 12, isiit. A iidrrsonville, Ga. 

Freischle, Xavier Priv. H Sept. 27. 18(J4, .\ndersonville, Ga. 

Frysbie, Zara Priv. C .\ug. 20, 18()4, .Vndersonville, Ga. 

Fuchs, Henry Priv. D .\ndersonville, Ga. 

Geer, Orlando Priv. F July 12, 18(54, Andersonville, Ga. 

Goodfellow, Levi C Priv. D Oct. 6, 1864, Andersonville, Ga. 

Goodwin, George Priv. \ Oct. 3, 1664, .\ndersonville, Ga. 

Halverson, Peter S Priv. D Oct. 27, 1864, Andersonville, Ga. 

Handy, Joel Principal 

Musician . . ..A.ug. 22, 1864, Andersonville, Ga. 

Harvev, Joseph E Priv. K Sept. 18, 1864, .\ndersonville, Ga. 

Hatch, William F Priv. I Sept. 12, 1864, Andersonville, Ga. 

Herzog, .\nton Priv. G .\ndersonville, Ga. 

Higbv, Martin F Corporal G .\ndersonvilIe, Ga. 

Hill, Chauncey J Priv. K Aug. 18, 1864, Andersonville, Ga. 

Holt, Albert Priv. F Andersonville, Ga. 

Isenhour, James Priv. I .Vug. 1. 18(14. Andersonville, Ga. 

Johnson, Nils Priv. H Sept. 4, 1S(14, Andersonville, Ga. 

Jung, Ludwig Priv. H Aug. 18, 1S(14, Andersonville, Ga. 

Kinna, Michael Priv. B July 9, 1S.I14. Andersonville, Ga. 

Klos, Ludwig Priv. H Sept. 18, lMi4, An<lersonvilie, Ga. 

Kolzer, .\dam Priv. G July 26. 1.SI14, Andersonville, Ga. 

Lanan, Nicholas Priv. I Dec. 1, 1864. .Vndersonville, Ga. 

Lanzer, Martin Priv. G .\ug. 30, l.S(i4, .Vndersonville, Ga. 

Larch, Nicholas Priv. G .Sept. 4, 18(14, .\ndersonville. Ga. 

Latimer, Washington R Priv. D Jan. 23, 186.3, .\ndersonville, Ga. 

Lewis, Louis Priv. E March 26. 18(5.5, .\ndersonville, Ga. 

Lindley, Samuel .\ Priv. B July 9, 1864. .Vndersonville, Ga. 

McDougall, John Priv. A .-Vug. 28, 1864. Andersonville, Ga. 

McKee, John Priv. D Oct. 30, 1.S64, Andersonville, Ga. 

Marden, James W Priv. \ -^ug. 8, 1864, .Vndersonville, Ga. 

Miller, Peter M Priv. D Oct. 27, 1864, Andersonville, Ga. 

Monson, Ole Priv. D Oct. 10, 1864, Andersonville, Ga. 

Monthly, John Priv. G Sept. 8, 1864. .Vndersonville, Ga. 

Mullenbach, John Priv. G Sept. 18, 1S64. Andersonville, Ga. 

Newton, Charles Priv. K .Vug. 27, lMi4. Andersonville, Ga. 

Oilman, William Priv. B Sept. 8, lS(i4. .Vndersonville, Ga. 

Perukle, Jacob Priv. H .\ug. 20. Isti4, .Vndersonville, Ga. 

Perukle. Jesse M Priv. H Aug. 13. isi;4, .Vndersonville, Ga. 

Pettijohn, Silas W Priv. H Sept. 1.5, 1864, Andersonville, Ga. 

. Pounder, Thomas Priv. B .Vndersonville, Ga. 

Pratchett, Charles Priv. K \\\g. 5, 1864, .\ndersonville, Ga. 

Reese, William Priv. E Oct. 11, 1864, Andersonville, Ga. 

Roberts, John G Priv. E July 28, 1864, Andersonville, Ga. 

Robertson, John Priv. B Oct. 2, 1864, .\ndersonville, Ga. 

Scherer, Ferdinand Priv. G Oct. 9, 1864, .\ndersonville, Ga. 

Schieffer, Henri Priv. G 1864, .\ndersonville, Ga. 

Sehroeder, William Priv. D Dec. 10, 1864, .\ndersonville, Ga. 

Short, Martin Priv. K Sept. 12, 1864, .\ndersonville, Ga. 

Seifert, Christian Priv. G .\ug. 2(J, 1864, .Vndersonville, (ia. 



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NAME Rank 

Souter, Charles Priv. 

Taylor, Levi C Priv. 

Thielen, Jacob . . . Priv. 

Thomas, William R Priv. 

Tilton, Nathan Priv. 

Ulvin, Andrew Priv. 

Van House, Bryant Corporal 

Wallace, Horace E Priv. 

Warren, Edmund Musician 

Webster, Freeman O Priv. 

Westover, O. J Priv. 

Wheeler, Albert E Priv. 

Whipple, Oliver C Priv. 

White, George W Wagoner 

Wilson, Franklin C Priv. 

Winter, George Priv. 

Wood, Joseph B Priv. 

Woodbury, James N Priv. 



Co. Date and Place of Death 

H Aug. 20, 1864, Andersonville, Ga. 

K Sept. 12, 1864, Andersonville, Ga. 

K Sept. 12, 1864, Andersonville, Ga. 

E Oct. 28, 1864. Andersonville, Ga. 

B Sept. 28, 1864, Andersonville, Ga. 

E Nov. 20, 1864, Andersonville, Ga. 

C Aug. 26, 1864, Andersonville, Ga. 

D Oct. 30, 1864, Andersonville, Ga. 

A Sept. 14, 1864, Andersonville, Ga. 

G Andersonville, Ga. 

E Sept. 11, 1864, Andersonville, Ga. 

C Aug. 1, 1864, Andersonville, Ga. 

F Sept. 16, 1864, Andersonville, Ga. 

. . .Sept. 14, 1864, Andersonville, Ga. 

C Aug. 13, 1864, Andersonville, Ga. 

H Sept. 9, 1864, Andersonville, Ga. 

H Aug. 16, 1864, Andersonville, Ga 

C Aug. 1, 1864, Andersonville, Ga. 



RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE OMER R. WEAVER CAMP OF THE 

UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS OF LITTLE ROCK, 

ARKANSAS, OCTOBER 8th. 1916 

RESOLVED, by Omer R. Weaver Camp. U. C. V., in regular 
monthly meeting, October 8th, 1916: 

That we highly appreciate the kind words and expressions of 
comradeship used by each and every orator of the Minnesota Com- 
mission, who recently visited our city on the occasion of the dedi- 
cation of the magnificent monument erected by the State of Minne- 
sota in honor of her dead who lie in the National Cemetery near 
the City of Little Rock, September 22nd, 1916. 

RESOLVED, That we tender our sincere thanks to the Com- 
mission for courtesies extended to Confederate veterans to be heard 
on that auspicious occasion. 

RESOLVED, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted by 
the Adjutant to C. C. Andrews, Chairman of said Commission, and 
that a copy thereof be filed in the archives of this Camp. 

I hereby certify that the above resolutions were unanimously 
adopted. 

JONATHAN KELLOGG, Adjutant. 



